Health

A New Way To Get College Students Through A Psychiatric Crisis — And Back To School

A partnership between a mental health care provider and colleges is redefining emergency mental health care on campus – helping students get needed care without losing track of their academic goals.

What You Need To Know About The Affordable Care Act After Texas Ruling

A federal judge in Texas rules the ACA is unconstitutional. What does this mean for American healthcare, and who will be affected?

Teen Vaping Soared In 2018

A dramatic increase in vaping among high school students is the largest yearly change ever seen in a long-running survey tracking substance use and abuse by teens.

This Pesticide Poisons Kids, But It's Still Sprayed On Washington Orchards

A court battle is raging over whether or not the EPA should ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos. In the meantime, Pacific Northwest farmers keep using it.

Morning Edition

ACA Sign-Ups Have Lagged For 2019. But What Does That Mean?

The pace of enrollment in Affordable Care Act plans is slower than in past years. That could mean fewer people will have health coverage — or that more people are getting insurance via their work.

What I knew about suicide didn’t fit my sweet, energetic 12-year-old boy

Penny Daniel is a grandmother and mother of three, "a big, a middle and a little." She recently shared this heart-wrenching story about the death of her 12-year-old son, Declan, at the NAMI Washington's storytelling event, The Brainpower Chronicles. It's a difficult story, but draws together some lessons learned after a terrible tragedy.

Kotex Recalls Some Tampons After Reports Of Unraveling Inside Body

Some boxes of U by Kotex Sleek Tampons, regular absorbency, have a "quality-related defect" that left pieces of the tampon inside the bodies of some consumers — in some cases causing infection.