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NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with science journalist Harriet A. Washington about her new book, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind.

For children in developing countries, cancer care is largely out of reach. But new research is challenging assumptions that it's too costly and complicated.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the House speaker to discuss an altered video of her. She didn't call back but met with his former partner, who has urged breaking up the social media giant.

While the seaweed has a lot of things going for it in terms of nutrition and climate friendliness, the lack of infrastructure to process it and people's tastes have not been quick to adopt it.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Omer Taspinar of the Brookings Institution, about what to expect from a Turkish offensive in northern Syria and how the Turkish president views the situation.

An art installation in Chicago honors victims of gun violence, and its organizers hope to make it a national monument. They want to bring widespread attention to what they consider another epidemic.

An office of the Department of Health and Human Services surveyed 323 U.S. hospitals and found shortages of "intravenous therapy poles, medical gas, linens and food." Many are still scrambling.

What's behind the "14 days of self-quarantine" guidance after exposure to someone with COVID-19 or after travel from a place with a high number of cases? Think of yourself as a potential incubator.

The craft store chain's conservative Christian owners object to the Affordable Care Act mandate to include coverage for birth control in company health insurance plans.

An NPR probe finds many nursing homes are still prescribing schizophrenia drugs to calm dementia patients — despite FDA warnings — but only 2 percent of excessive-medication cases result in penalties.