After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've enjoyed reading so far this year. Here's what they told us.

Diana stayed with them on and off for four years. There was something different about her, they say — a generosity that took them both by surprise. "Maybe there is tea, or there is porridge, but any ...

Two days after firing vaccine experts who help set the nation's immunization policies, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has picked eight successors for the CDC panel.

Justin Carlyle, age 23, photographed on the street in Kensington, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, has lived with addiction to fentanyl and other drugs for a decade. After a decade when overdoses ...

On "What's Health," making dental care more accessible by closing insurance gaps. Then, how to decipher medical bills.

Issues include an instructor shortage and that many students aren't ready for the educational demands of nursing. Stephanie Solomon with Tallahassee State College says efforts are in place to help.

Updated July 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM EDT Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. often says that Americans were healthier when he was a kid in the '50s and '60s. People weren't so overweight or taking so ...

Chess is seeing a global resurgence, sparked by The Queen's Gambit and the pandemic impact on leisure time. India is an emerging power player, with 85 grandmasters and intense chess schools for youth.

An underground network of feminists and activists developed new models of care for abortion that eventually helped legalize abortion in countries across Latin America.

Dr. Mark Dybul was an architect of PEPFAR, a program credited with saving 26 million lives. Now its future could be in jeopardy as Congress reviews the Trump administration's funding rescission memo.

Nearly 25% of Florida farmers reported that weather and its impacts on farms cause high levels of stress and uncertainty. The report focused on the overall mental well-being of those in the ...

Access is especially tough for kids in rural areas or whose families don't have a lot of money. Some dentists say a new statewide ban on adding fluoride to drinking water affects these communities the ...