Ireland Just Voted to Legalize Abortion
Niall Carson/PA Wire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Ireland made history when the country voted to repeal its constitution’s Eighth Amendment, one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe. The referendum’s passage is a huge win for reproductive-rights advocates in a Catholic country that for decades pledged to…
How Your Health Insurer and Your Doctors Scheme to Screw You Over
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and NPR. Michael Frank ran his finger down his medical bill, studying the charges and pausing in disbelief. The numbers didn’t make sense. His recovery from a partial hip replacement had been difficult. He’d iced and elevated his…
Irish Citizens Are Going #HomeToVote on Abortion And It’s Warming Our Cold, American Hearts
Abortion rights campaigners protesting in London, UKClaire Doherty/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As Ireland prepares to vote on a historic referendum that could legalize abortion in the deeply Catholic country, Irish citizens are flying home to cast their votes—and they’re using the now-trending hashtag #HomeToVote on social media to talk about it. The Irish…
Savvy Doctors Can Convince Reluctant Parents To Vaccinate Their Kids
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A vaccine that can prevent certain kinds of cancer has been on the market for decades—but American children’s immunization rates with it are still woefully low. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that all children receive a series of human papillomavirus immunizations when…
A Grim New Reality: More Overdose Deaths Means More Available Organs
Ridofranz/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The mounting death toll from the overdose epidemic has had an unforeseen effect: more organ donors. Between 2000 and 2016, the number of organ donors who died of drug overdoses grew 17-fold, according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine. In 2016,…
He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Steffanie Strathdee hunched over her laptop, fretting. She barely noticed the kittens asleep next to her or the serene Buddha figure across the living room, anchored next to the glass doors that looked toward the gleaming Pacific. Her mind was 20 miles away in the…