The EPA's new limits on PFAS in drinking water face legal challenges
Chemical companies and water utilities are challenging the EPA’s recent rule putting limits on six PFAS chemicals in drinking water.
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New rules will protect California workers from dangerous heat indoors
California joins just two other states that have heat regulations in place meant to keep millions of people who work in facilities like warehouses, restaurants or refineries safe.
2 sisters, who fled the Vietnam War as kids, reflect on what they've been through
Sisters Mai Lo Lee and Beth Lo, who grew up in a large Hmong family, recall their youth spent in a refugee camp in Thailand and on a ginseng farm in Wisconsin.
Meet the doctors trying to integrate abortion into primary care
Why is abortion care usually delivered at specialized clinics? The answer has to do more with stigma and politics than medicine. Historically, this part of reproductive health care has been siloed.
Meet the doctors trying to integrate abortion into primary care
Why is abortion care usually delivered at specialized clinics? The answer has to do more with stigma and politics than medicine. Historically, this part of reproductive health care has been siloed.
Howard Blatt, stroke survivor who co-founded an aphasia support group, died at 88
After a stroke left Howard Blatt unable to speak, he helped create a support group for other people with aphasia, a brain condition that impairs communication. He recently died at age 88.
As they enter their 60s, Gen Xers projected to see higher cancer rates than Boomers
If current cancer trends continue, authors of a new study project “cancer incidence in the US could remain unacceptably high for decades to come.”
EPA rule limiting certain 'forever chemicals' in drinking water is challenged
Water utilities and chemical companies are mounting legal challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency's recent rule putting limits on six “forever chemicals” in drinking water.
Does science back up the surgeon general's call for a warning label on social media?
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wants tobacco-style warning labels for social media. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to clinical psychologist Michaeline Jensen, who has studied social media's effect on kids.
It’s called an urgent care emergency center — but which is it?
Suffering stomach pain, a Dallas man visited his local urgent care clinic — or so he thought, until he got a bill 10 times what he’d expected.