Many older people love slow strength training. Does it work? A Martinez visits a slow strength gym and goes toe-to-toe with a senior weightlifter to see if this type of exercise lives up to the hype. Alice Woelfle
How Trump's immigration policies could worsen the health care worker shortage Hospitals and nursing homes rely on the immigrant workforce to fill many key roles, research finds. Trump's crackdown on immigration threatens to exacerbate shortages. Ronnie Cohen
Coal miners' health care hit hard in job cuts to CDC The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of health agencies. Mining communities must now grapple with its disappearance. Yuki Noguchi
What will it take to get measles under control NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Caitlin Rivers of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about long-term implications of measles outbreaks in West Texas, New Mexico and a dozen other states. Courtney Dorning
'The coal miners' doctor' gets fired at CDC The CDC unit that monitored all coal workers' health, including black lung disease, is gone. Their physicians wonder, "Now what?" Yuki Noguchi
Texas' measles outbreak isn't slowing down. How can that change? Health experts say driving up vaccination rates in affected areas is the most effective defense against this disease Olivia Aldridge
USAID enabled 208 Afghan women to defy the Taliban ban on college -- until now A USAID grant enabled them to either study online or enroll in college in another country. Now the grant has been terminated. Ruchi Kumar
It's sexual assault awareness month and HHS just gutted its rape prevention unit The CDC teams that supported local sexual assault prevention groups were 'wiped out' in RFK Jr.'s overhaul of the Department of Health and Human Services. Selena Simmons-Duffin
Health secretary RFK Jr. endorses the MMR vaccine — stoking fury among his supporters Prominent anti-vaccine activists lined up on social media to denounce the move. Geoff Brumfiel
Transfer to Alaska? Offer to health leaders called 'insult' to Indian Health Service NPR obtained emails that went out last week to leaders at health agencies offering to transfer them to postings in tribal communities. Officials close to Dr. Anthony Fauci got the offer. Rob Stein