After record drug deaths, there have been major reforms in addiction treatment Transcript The opioid epidemic surged in 2022 killing record numbers of Americans, but help may be on the way in the form of more aid to communities and major reforms in o...
I'm Crying Cuz... I'm Human From misty eyeballs to full-on waterworks, what are tears? Why do we shed them? And what makes humans' ability to cry emotional tears unique? Hosts Emily Kwong and Aaron Scott get into their feelings in this science-fueled...
A U.K. medical office mistakenly sent patients a text message with a cancer diagnosis Carl Chegwin was getting in the holiday spirit by watching the movie The Santa Clause on Christmas Eve when he says he got a text message from his U.K. doctor's off...
Feds sue AmerisourceBergen over 'hundreds of thousands' of alleged opioid violations The U.S. Justice Department is suing one of the nation's largest corporations, drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen, for allegedly fueling the nation's deadly opioid cr...
Bleeding and in pain, she couldn't get 2 Louisiana ERs to answer: Is it a miscarriage? Transcript BATON ROUGE, La. When Kaitlyn Joshua found out she was pregnant in mid-August, she and her husband, Landon Joshua, were excited to have a second baby on...
How a scrappy African startup could forever change the world of vaccines Transcript Imagine a world with vaccines not just for global threats like measles and COVID but for all the diseases that afflict people in the world's poorest countries illness...
Psychedelic drugs may launch a new era in psychiatric treatment, brain scientists say Transcript One of the hottest tickets at this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego was a session on psychedelic drugs. About 1,000 brain scientists...
Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help Transcript In 2020, Lauren Brown of Upper Darby, Pa., had a high-risk pregnancy. She was past 35 years old, had high blood pressure, and had a previous blood clot that co...
German Special Forces arrest 25 people for a plot to overthrow the government Transcript German Special Forces arrested 25 people for a domestic terrorism plot to overthrow the government there. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: German forces have arrested numero...
Rep. Adam Schiff on what the Jan. 6 committee wants to achieve before the year ends Transcript NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the House Jan. 6 committee about the panel's priorities before the end of the year an...
House Jan. 6 committee is likely to make criminal referrals Transcript The Jan. 6 panel's Chairman Bennie Thompson said they will issue the referrals, but stopped short of sharing any names with reporters RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We turn now to what coul...
Former President Donald Trump's company is found guilty of criminal tax fraud Transcript A jury in Manhattan has found former President Donald Trump's company guilty of a long-running criminal tax fraud scheme that lasted into his presidency. Though...
An independent entrepreneur adjusts to the rules of life with her parents Transcript 28-year-old Monica Lee used to work for a PR firm in China, now she's an entrepreneur in St. Louis and has had to readjust to life with her Korean American extended...
Jonathan, the world's oldest tortoise, marks his 190th with fanfare and salad cake Transcript He's lived through two world wars, eight British monarchs and 40 U.S. presidents. His lifetime has seen the first phone call (1876), the first skyscraper (1...
Second gentleman Emhoff says antisemitism has become an epidemic Transcript The second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, hosted a roundtable at the White House Wednesday on the rise of antisemitism in the United States, saying there is an epidemic of hate faci...
