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A survey shows that doctors have trouble taking full vacations from their high-stress jobs. Even when they do, they often still do work on their time off. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
For decades, all research in federally funded laboratories had to use only marijuana grown at a single facility located in Oxford, Mississippi. Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service via Getty Images hide caption
A survey shows that doctors have trouble taking full vacations from their high-stress jobs. Even when they do, they often still do work on their time off. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
When PTO stands for 'pretend time off': Doctors struggle to take real breaks
For decades, all research in federally funded laboratories had to use only marijuana grown at a single facility located in Oxford, Mississippi. Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/Tribune News Service via Getty Images hide caption
Scientists welcome new rules on marijuana, but research will still face obstacles
The hope was that bringing many other services to people with high needs would stabilize their health problems. While the strategy has succeeded sometimes, it hasn't saved money. Douglas Sacha/Getty Images hide caption
How do you help patients who show up in the ER 100 times a year?
Tommy Trenchard picks up coins with his toes. Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville hide caption
The hope was that bringing many other services to people with high needs would stabilize their health problems. While the strategy has succeeded sometimes, it hasn't saved money. Douglas Sacha/Getty Images hide caption
A number of Democratic lawmakers have reintroduced the CROWN Act, legislation that would ban discrimination based on one's hairstyle or hair texture. Here, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs Crown Act legislation on June 15, 2023 in Lansing, Mich. that will outlaw race-based hairstyle discrimination in workplaces and schools. Joey Cappelletti/AP hide caption
Missouri law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they're pregnant — and state judges won't finalize divorces during a pregnancy. Darya Komarova/Getty Images hide caption
Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence
The federal government says it has taken steps toward developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu should it become a threat to humans. skodonnell/Getty Images hide caption
Pond Inlet on Baffin Island is one of the Inuit communities in the Canadian arctic facing a TB outbreak. Richard McManus/Getty Images hide caption
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ordering dairy producers to test cows that produce milk for infections from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) before the animals are transported to a different state following the discovery of the virus in samples of pasteurized milk taken by the Food and Drug Administration. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
In 'The Unexpected,' Emily Oster tackles the emotional toll of difficult pregnancies
Dr. Todd Rasmussen stands in his home office in Rochester, Minn. He is a former combat surgeon who did six tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jenn Ackerman for NPR hide caption
After downsizing health care for years, Pentagon says medical readiness was a casualty
Vargas Arango, 22, is a second-year student at Miami Dade College, studying business and psychology. Eva Marie Uzcategui for NPR hide caption
College student explores rare mental health condition in award-winning podcast
After an alarming spike in 2021, maternal mortality numbers the next year went back down, according to a report released Thursday. CDC Director Mandy Cohen says the rates are still too high. Rich Legg/Getty Images hide caption
Low-dose estrogen can be taken orally, but it's also now available in patches, gels and creams. svetikd/Getty Images hide caption
Arizona's Democratic Attorney General Kris Mayes, speaking in Phoenix last month after the state's supreme court ruled that an 1864 ban on abortion could be enforced, had pledged not to enforce the law. Now the legislature has voted to repeal it. Jonathan Cooper/AP hide caption
The medical community dates pregnancy to the first day of a woman's last period, even though fertilization generally happens two weeks after that. It's a long-standing practice but a confusing one. Nikola Stojadinovic/Getty Images hide caption
Instructions for a fingernail filing gadget for infants says, "Stay away from children." It's enough to make a new parent holler. Thanasis Zovoilis/Getty Images hide caption
Thousands of abortion rights protesters rallied in Tampa on Oct. 2, 2021. Stephanie Colombini/WUSF hide caption
Florida's 6-week abortion ban is now in effect, curbing access across the South
Walmart announced that it is closing its health centers and virtual care service, as the retail giant has struggled to find success with the offerings. Gene J. Puskar/AP hide caption
Volunteers clean up plastic waste on a beach in Peru. ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The new guidelines were prompted by increased rates of breast cancer in women in their 40s. They recommend mammograms every other year, starting at age 40. izusek/Getty Images hide caption
This image shows a brain "assembloid" consisting of two connected brain "organoids." Scientists studying these structures have restored impaired brain cells in Timothy syndrome patients. Pasca lab, Stanford University hide caption