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The Institute of Medicine this week urged Congress to allocate to community clinics more of the $15 billion it spends annually on training new doctors. But hospitals say that's the wrong prescription.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Mayor Dana Outlaw of New Bern, N.C., about how his town has been recovering from Hurricane Florence, and preparing for Hurricane Michael.

Health care has consistently polled as the No. 1 issue for Iowa voters. As they prepare to caucus, voters weigh which candidate to support and what health care should look like in the future.

Daegu, the center of South Korea's coronavirus outbreak, tries to figure out an effective way to tackle the disease.

The California county includes the hospital that treated the first known U.S. case of community spread of COVID-19, which went undiagnosed for days because of problems with the U.S. testing program.

Antibody-based drugs that bind to the coronavirus to prevent it from invading cells can help patients with mild to moderate COVID-19. But the medicines can be tough to find in time.

The new movie, Salt-N-Pepa, is about one of the first and most successful all-female rap groups. The film was executive produced by Queen Latifah and directed by Mario Van Peebles.

The country's racial justice problems aren't limited to policing — U.S. schools also struggle with inequity and implicit bias.

Heather Shkliarov warns that her Belarusian American husband's health is in "immediate danger" following his late-July arrest by security forces of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

"What we do these next 13 days will matter for decades to come," the former president stressed.