People line up outside a free COVID-19 vaccination site that opened Friday in Washington, D.C. The local health department is stepping up vaccination and booster shots as more cases of the omicron variant are being identified in the United States.Samuel Corum | Getty Images Moncef Slaoui, the former head of ...

Dr. Naresh Aggarwal talks in April with Jennifer Bain, who volunteered for a study of Medicago's COVID-19 vaccine in Toronto.Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images A Canadian biotech firm is reporting positive results from a large study of its COVID-19 vaccine. What makes it unusual is that the key ingredient ...

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy talks to reporters at the White House on July 15.Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has a warning about the mental health of young people. Murthy told Morning Edition that children and young adults were already facing a mental health crisis ...

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins served for 12 years under three presidents and presided over an expansion of the agency's budget and efforts to develop new cures to diseases.Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP via Getty Images It's Dr. Francis Collins' last few weeks as director of the National Institutes of Health ...

Members of the Black Equity Coalition, a grassroots team of researchers and advocates, meet regularly to discuss how they can use data to uncover life-threatening disparities between white and Black Pittsburgh. Clockwise, from top left are Kellie Ware, Karen Abrams, Tiffany Gary-Webb, Mark Lewis and Fred Brown.Martha Rial The ferocity ...

El Salvador and China have now been declared malaria-free. That's one of the encouraging takeaways from the new annual report on malaria issued on Monday by the World Health Organization. But the sobering news is that despite progress in some countries, this debilitating and lethal disease took a greater toll ...

In October, Eric Trump, son of the former president, spoke to a conference filled with anti-vaccine activists.Screenshot by NPR | Bitchute In October, a conference filled with anti-vaccine activists in Nashville, Tenn., received a high-profile political guest: former President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump. While portions of the younger Trump's ...

People protest a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for municipal workers on Oct. 28 in New York City. Polling, vaccination and mortality data all suggest that Republicans lag far behind in vaccination and are suffering the worst consequences as a result.David Dee Delgado | Getty Images Updated December 5, 2021 at 10:27 ...

Katherine Streeter for NPR Here we go again. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to almost normal times, a new, highly mutated variant of the coronavirus has reared its ugly head in the U.S. Scientists say it's still too soon to know whether the omicron variant ...

Meric Long of the Bay Area band The Dodos found his voice in a distinctive guitar style. While writing the new album Grizzly Peak, he watched that ability begin to slip away.Shane Tolentino for NPR Meric Long had been playing guitar for three years when he realized the instrument could ...