Examining Biden's Health Care Pitch New York Times health reporter Sarah Kliff tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about Joe Biden's health care plan and how it differs from "Medicare for All."
'Our women are no longer invisible.' Counting missing and murdered indigenous women from the Northwest Seattle's Native community wants better data on missing and murdered indigenous women, and they're taking it on themselves to make that happen. Kate Walters
Washington state now offers 'debit' cards to replace paper checks for WIC This is for the program that provides food assistance to women and young children. Ruby de Luna
Study: Sugar Rules The World And Ruins Teeth The authors of a new study say dental health is especially bad in low- and middle-income countries — and that Big Sugar works to make sure soda and candy aren't targeted as cavity culprits. Nadia Whitehead
Acting Head Of Customs and Border Protection Says New Asylum Rule In 'Pilot' Phase "Although the new federal regulation allows us to apply that all 2,000 miles along the southwest border, we're not going to do that." Mark Morgan told NPR. Vanessa Romo
U.S. Overdose Deaths Dipped In 2018, But Some States Saw 'Devastating' Increases Provisional overdose data for 2018 show a note of hope in an overall bleak picture. But in some states, the numbers actually got worse. What explains the disparities? Selena Simmons-Duffin
WHO Says Ebola Is Now A 'Public Health Emergency Of International Concern' The head of the World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo an international emergency. It's only the fifth time the WHO has sounded the alarm this way. Nurith Aizenman
Car Shopping, Handbags And Wealthy Uncles: The Quest To Explain High Drug Prices Trump administration officials say drugs' list prices are like cars' sticker prices — easily negotiated. But in the life and death world of medicine, say price watchers, that analogy falls apart. Selena Simmons-Duffin
She felt her baby inside her and realized it was time to get clean A few years ago, Mary was in a bad place. Mary isn’t her real name, we’ve changed it to protect her privacy. She was homeless, she’d lost her daughter to her former partner, she was using heroin and she was pregnant. Kate Walters
Federal Judge Orders Release Of Dataset Showing Drug Industry's Role In Opioid Crisis As addiction has soared, drugmakers, distributors and pharmacies profited off opioids. Newly released data details who made the pills, where they were sold, and which communities were hit hardest. Brian Mann