Tinnitus bothers millions of Americans, and complaints are on the rise amid the coronavirus pandemic.Nes | Getty Images Imagine a sound that travels with you no matter where you go. Whether it's a ring, a whoosh or a crickets-like buzz, you can't escape it. "Mine was like this high-pitched sonic ...

Housing activists erect a sign in front of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's house in Swampscott, Mass., on Oct. 14, 2020. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has extended a moratorium on evictions until the end of July.Michael Dwyer | AP The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has extended ...

An oxygen cylinder plant in Kampala, Uganda. The Ugandan army has started producing oxygen for state-run hospitals to ease the burden existing plants as COVID-19 cases — and demand for oxygen for severe illness — keep rising.Nicholas Kajoba | Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images Hospital wards across Uganda are ...

A COVID-19 vaccination clinic last month in Auburn, Maine. A drop in life expectancy in the U.S. stems largely from the coronavirus pandemic, a new study says.Robert F. Bukaty | AP A new study estimates that life expectancy in the U.S. decreased by nearly two years between 2018 and 2020, ...

After experiencing a suicidal crisis earlier this year, Melinda, a Massachusetts 13-year-old, was forced to remain 17 days in the local hospital's emergency room while she waited for a space to open up at a psychiatric treatment facility. She was only allowed to use her phone an hour a day ...

The city of Cleveland is trying to address two big problems at the same time: climate change and racial and economic disparities.Ryan Kellman | NPR On the corner of East 123rd Street and Imperial Avenue, in Cleveland, Shirley Bell-Wheeler watches over a community garden with freshly planted raspberries, purple asparagus ...

Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, an activist from Malawi, is one of six recipients of the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize. Majiga-Kamoto has been instrumental in implementing Malawi's ban on thin plastics.Goldman Environmental Prize For Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, her great awakening to plastic pollution started with goats. She was working for a local environmental nongovernmental ...

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, leads some of the Biden administration's efforts to expand Medicaid access.Caroline Brehman | CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag The Biden administration is quietly engineering a series of expansions to Medicaid that may bolster protections for millions of low-income ...

This room is where members of the San Juan Early Response Network eat, sleep and hang out while waiting to respond to emergency calls. Nicknamed "the barracks" by the staffers, the dorm includes bunk beds and a television.Ashley Westerman/NPR Clarisa Andres, a petite 22-year-old, hasn't been home in over a ...

Sally Deng | NPR I've been keeping a secret. I've decided to tell it. I have metastatic breast cancer, MBC, stage 4. That means the breast cancer has spread to my lungs, bones and brain. There is no cure. Eventually, it kills you. Actually, I've had it for two years. ...