Demonstrators in Krakow, Poland, hold a banner reading "Legal Abortion Without Compromise" at a December 2021 protest. Poland has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe. Beata Zawrzel | NurPhoto via Getty Images Ukrainian women who were raped by Russian soldiers are among the millions of refugees who ...

First grader Rihanna Chihuaque, 7, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Arturo Velasquez Institute in Chicago last November. Scott Olson | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration Tuesday authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine booster for children ages 5 to 11. The authorization makes all children in that age group who ...

Pennsylvania Republican candidate for governor Doug Mastriano speaks during a rally at Archery Addictions on Friday in Lehighton, Pa. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Tuesday is the final day for Pennsylvania Republican voters to choose their candidate for governor. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, who has held the job since ...

The federal government is sending out a third round of free rapid antigen COVID-19 tests through the U.S. Postal Service. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Updated May 16, 2022 at 10:14 PM ET Americans can once again order free COVID-19 tests from the federal government by visiting COVIDtests.gov. In this ...

The memory of aging mice improved when they received a substance found in the spinal fluid of young animals. Robert F. Bukaty | AP A team at Stanford University has demonstrated a new approach to reversing memory loss — in mice. An infusion of spinal fluid from young mice reversed ...

With Roe v. Wade primed to be overruled, people seeking abortions could soon face new barriers in many states. Researcher Diana Greene Foster documented what happens when someone is denied an abortion in The Turnaway Study. Malte Mueller | Getty Images Though it's impossible to know exactly what will happen ...

Abortion rights demonstrators chant during a protest outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Bloomberg | Bloomberg via Getty Images If you're going to talk about the intersection of abortion and race, it's probably a good thing to start with the 14th amendment, says Melissa Murray, a legal scholar and law ...

In Atlanta, demonstrators rally in support of women's reproductive rights at the Georgia state Capitol on October 2, 2021. Megan Varner | Getty Images Updated May 16, 2022 at 12:40 PM ET All 50 states would suddenly have the power to decide when and if abortion should be legal if ...

Via Robert Texel In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Two years later, nearly a million Americans have died from the disease. To put a face on this number and pay respect to the departed, NPR asked our audience to share songs that reminded them of ...

A health worker vaccinates a Kenyan child with the world's first malaria vaccine. Kenya has given at least one dose to 300,000 children so far. Brian Ongoro | AFP via Getty Images Earlier this week, Dr. Kwaku Poku Asante of Ghana got the phone call he consistently dreads. It was ...