Presidential candidates Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump differ in how they'd tackle several health care issues, including drug pricing. Charles Rex Arbogast/AP hide caption
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In this photo illustration, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburger meal is seen at a McDonald's on Oct. 23 in the Flatbush neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
Dr. Richard Cash devoted much of his life to improving health care in poor countries. He played a critical role in the testing and implementation of oral rehydration therapy for patients suffering from diarrheal diseases — giving them a mixture of water, salts and sugar. Discussing this intervention, he said, "Simple doesn't mean second class." Kent Dayton hide caption
Dr. Emily Boevers, an OBGYN based in Waverly, Iowa, poses for a portrait at her family's farm in nearby Tripoli. She says the state's rape exception requirements threaten the privacy, trust and intimacy of the patient-doctor relationship. Geoff Stellfox for NPR hide caption
Many state abortion bans include exceptions for rape. How often are exceptions grant?
In this photo illustration, a McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburger meal is seen at a McDonald's on Oct. 23 in the Flatbush neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
The "Pink Wheels" team in the Pakistani town of Gujranwala consists of female officers who ride pink scooters to respond to complaints from women about domestic violence and sexual assault. The officers stand in front of the "Women's Enclave," a new kind of police station, staffed by women and intended for women who want to file such complaints. At right is Tayyiba Hameed, 32, who is on the staff of the Women's Enclave. Veengas hide caption
The FDA issued three health alerts about lead in cinnamon in 2024, after dangerous amounts of the harmful element were found in children's applesauce packets last fall. FDA hide caption
Dr. Kelsey Leonardsmith (left) with colleague Dylan Flunker in the garden of Family Tree Clinic in Minneapolis. The two run a program to train more doctors and nurses in the region to be able to provide gender affirming care, which is legal in Minnesota, but banned for youth in dozens of states around the country. Selena Simmons-Duffin/NPR hide caption
A McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder is shown on March 6, 2018, in Atlanta. Mike Stewart/AP hide caption
This electron microscopic image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows two, round-shaped, Gram-positive, Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria. AP/CDC hide caption
Morris Brown, a primary care physician, listens to Sarah McCutcheon’s heartbeat in the exam room at his medical office in Kingstree, South Carolina, which sits in a region that suffers from health care provider shortages and high rates of chronic diseases. Gavin McIntyre for KFF Health News hide caption
Fleetwood High School cheerleader Samantha Colelli, 17, a senior at Fleetwood, does a basket during halftime at a game in 2017. As cheerleading has become more ambitious over the last decade, it's also become riskier warn pediatricians. Harold Hoch/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle/Getty Images hide caption
A McDonald's Double Quarter Pounder is shown on March 6, 2018, in Atlanta. The fast-food chain says customers should feel confident ordering from its restaurants despite a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to its Quarter Pounder hamburgers. Mike Stewart/AP hide caption
Garment workers in Bangladesh protest for better working conditions. Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Veronica, 17, of Des Moines, Iowa, with her estrogen pills. A new study shows a very low rate of regret among kids taking puberty blockers or hormones as part of gender-affirming care. Selena Simmons-Duffin/NPR hide caption
Survey asked transgender teens whether they regretted pursuing gender-affirming care
This 2014 photo made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female Anopheles funestus mosquito. James Gathany/AP/CDC hide caption
Cobenfy, a new drug made by Bristol Myers Squibb and approved by the FDA last week, triggers muscarinic receptors instead of dopamine receptors. It's the first schizophrenia treatment to do so. Bristol Myers Squibb hide caption
For the first time in decades, we have a new kind of schizophrenia drug
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have spread into Southern California in the past decade, likely introduced from the U.S. Southeast, where technicians photographed these mosquitoes trapped on a sticky pad. Unlike California's native mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti are capable of spreading dengue fever— a disease common in the tropics, but still rare in most of the United States. Last year was the first time the disease spread locally in Southern California. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
A sign outside a McDonald's restaurant is seen in Pittsburgh, on June 25, 2019. E. coli food poisoning linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers has sickened at least 49 people in 10 states, including one person who died and 10 who were hospitalized. Gene J. Puskar/AP hide caption
An aerial photograph from 2023 of the Rusayo camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Goma in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hundreds of thousands of Congolese have found refuge around Goma after fleeing fighting further north. Two new reports document a 'staggering' increase in rapes over the past year. Alexis Huguet/AFP via Getty Images hide caption