Health workers marched in Butembo on Wednesday to protest the violence they're facing. The demonstration comes in the wake of an attack last Friday in which an epidemiologist from Cameroon was shot and killed. Al-hadji Kudra Maliro/AP hide caption
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A man uses heroin in a park in New York City in 2017. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Majority Of Americans Say Drug Companies Should Be Held Responsible For Opioid Crisis
A sign explaining the local state of emergency because of a measles outbreak at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
'Mind Fixers' Documents The 'Troubled Search' For Mental Illness Medication
In Massachusetts last July, several Franklin County Jail inmates were watched by a nurse and a corrections officer after receiving their daily doses of buprenorphine, a drug that helps control opioid cravings. By some estimates, at least half to two-thirds of today's U.S. jail population has a substance use or dependence problem. Elise Amendola/AP hide caption
County Jails Struggle With A New Role As America's Prime Centers For Opioid Detox
Former Rochester Drug Co-Operative CEO Laurence Doud III, who faces criminal charges stemming from the opioid crisis, leaves the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Tuesday. Kathy Willens/AP hide caption
Rochester Drug Cooperative Faces Federal Criminal Charges Over Role In Opioid Epidemic
How do you tell the good parenting advice from the bad? When producer Selena Simmons-Duffin's daughter was ready to start solid food, her parents encountered wildly conflicting advice about what to feed her. Selena Simmons-Duffin/NPR hide caption
Dr. Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung of Cameroon was killed on Friday in an attack on an Ebola response command center in Democratic Republic of the Congo. DRC Ministry of Health & WHO hide caption
Sergio, a Guatemalan migrant, recently visited a mobile medical van with his 2-year-old son, Dylan. Sergio thinks his son became sick in a holding facility, where they spent two days. Mallory Falk/KRWG hide caption
At The U.S.-Mexico Border, Volunteer Medics Step In To Care For Migrants
Over the past decade, hospitals have been rapidly building outpatient clinics or purchasing existing independent ones. It was a lucrative business strategy because such clinics could charge higher rates, on the premise that they were part of a hospital. Medicare's recent rule change puts a damper on all that. Hero Images/Getty Images hide caption