Rebbeccah Atieno stands with one of the boats owned by the No Sex for Fish women. Once a proud boat owner herself, she says she lost her home when Lake Victoria swept through the village; her boat no longer functions. She now earns a living working on rice farms and ...

Nurse Katrina Philpot (left) protests against COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates in Santa Fe, N.M., in August.Cedar Attanasio | AP As new data shows 1 in 500 Americans has died from COVID-19 and the delta variant continues to surge across the country, the next challenge many health care leaders face ...

A newly-opened COVID-19 hospital in Kabul. Dr. Wahid Majrooh, the acting minister of public health in Afghanistan, must address the pandemic's toll at a time when the Taliban takeover has triggered a freeze in hundreds of millions of dollars in health-care aid from outside groups.Sayed Mominzadah | Xinhua News Agency ...

Ornella Corazza, a professor of addictive behavior at the University of Hertfordshire, says there was more anxiety about body image during the lockdown.Photo Illustration by Catie Dull/NPR Like a lot of folks, I started working out a bunch during the pandemic. I'm talking real jock stuff — swinging and cleaning ...

Palestinian Health Ministry staff members in Nablus receive 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the United States through through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative on Aug. 24, 2021.Jaafar Ashtiyeh | AFP via Getty Images Updated September 17, 2021 at 7:26 PM ET Facing criticism for its plan to give Americans ...

A health care worker prepares third doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines for a senior living facility in Worcester, Pa., in late August.Hannah Beier | Bloomberg via Getty Images In a surprising vote, a panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Friday recommended against approval of a booster ...

Researchers say all three authorized COVID vaccines are good at keeping people out of the hospital, but Moderna seems to have the longest-lasting protection.Frederic J. Brown | AFP via Getty Images A head-to-head comparison of all three COVID-19 vaccines found Moderna is holding up better than Pfizer and the Johnson ...

Malaka Gharib/NPR In a Coronavirus FAQ last week, I reported on an encounter at an outdoor restaurant in which a stranger asked me why I was wearing a mask. "Do you think you really need it?" he wondered, even though he admitted that he was not yet fully vaccinated. I ...

Lions watch visitors from their enclosure at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., in July 2020.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP via Getty Images Humans aren't the only ones who have to worry about COVID-19. A number of lions and tigers at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., are now ...

According to the CDC, between March and May, 2020, hospitals across the country saw a 24% increase in mental health emergency visits by kids aged 5 to 11 years old, and a 31% increase for kids 12 to 17.Annie Otzen | Getty Images Most kids around the country are back ...