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Water pours from a faucet.
Health

Health effects uncertain, high toxin levels found in blood of residents near military bases

Blood tests for more than 230 residents of Bucks and Montgomery counties have come back showing high levels of a class of toxic chemicals known as PFAS.

7 years ago

In this Nov. 1, 2018 photo, Polly Varnado looks at her daughter's Medtronic insulin pump in Destin, Fla. Medical device manufacturers and experts say insulin pumps are safe. But an AP investigation found that insulin pumps and their components are responsible for the highest number of malfunction, injury and death reports in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s medical device database.  (Holbrook Mohr/AP Photo)
Health

Insulin pumps have most reported problems in FDA database

Insulin pumps and their components are responsible for the highest overall number of malfunction, injury and death reports.

7 years ago

In this June 22, 2016 photo made available by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, the FDA's Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, speaks at FDA's Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Medical Device Amendments. Under Shuren, new device approvals have more than tripled, while warnings to device manufacturers about product safety and quality have fallen roughly 80 percent, an Associated Press investigation found. (Michael J. Ermarth/FDA via AP)
Science

U.S. goal to be ‘first’ on devices worries former regulators

Dr. Jeffrey Shuren was adamant: The United States would never cut corners to fast-track the approval of medical devices.

7 years ago

Romaine lettuce is seen on sale at a supermarket in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning against all romaine lettuce just two days before Thanksgiving. Now the CDC has narrowed the source of the outbreak to California's central coast (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Some romaine is fine to eat, but beware California, CDC says

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has traced an ongoing E. coli outbreak to romaine lettuce grown in the Central Coastal region of California.

7 years ago

Volunteers search a mobile home park in Paradise, Calif. Government scientists predict wildfires like the one that struck this community will contribute to billions in losses for the U.S. economy (Kathleen Ronayne/AP)
NPR
Science

New U.S. climate assessment forecasts dire effects on economy, health

7 years ago

Tianjin, in northern China, is home to Tianjin University, an international research center that recently hired an American to lead its school of pharmaceutical science and technology. He recruits students from all over the world, he says, and the program's classes are taught in English. (Prisma Bildagentur/UIG/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

China expands research funding, luring U.S. scientists and students

7 years ago

Genetics researcher He Jiankui said his lab considered ethical issues before deciding to proceed with DNA editing of human embryos to create twin girls with a modification to reduce their risk of HIV infection. Critics say the experiment was premature. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)
NPR
Science

Chinese scientist says he’s first to create genetically modified babies using CRISPR

For the first time, a scientist claims to have used a powerful new gene-editing technique to create genetically modified human babies.

7 years ago

An artist's depiction of InSight — short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. The spacecraft has been designed to give Mars its first thorough checkup since the red planet formed, about 4.5 billion years ago.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
NPR
Science

NASA probe lands safely on Martian surface

NASA's InSight probe landed successfully on Mars today at shortly before 3 p.m. ET.

7 years ago

Once NASA's InSight Mars lander enters the Martian atmosphere and approaches the planet's surface, propulsive landing gear will slow the spacecraft down to about 5.5 mph (8.8 km/h) and safely set it down on the surface of the Red Planet. This image, taken at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, shows several of the critical landing systems including the thrusters, lander legs and science deck. (NASA)
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Science

NASA Touchdown On Mars

NASA’s InSight Lander is scheduled to set down on the surface of Mars on Monday, November 26th. As a fixed station, InSight will dr ...

Air Date: November 26, 2018

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Liliana Czegledi holds a photo of her daughter, Ioana, at her home in the village of Sînandrei in western Romania. Ioana was just shy of her 10th birthday when she died of complications from measles. She could not be vaccinated because she had a compromised immune system. (Joanna Kakissis for NPR)
NPR
Health

The story behind the worst Measles outbreak in the European Union

Measles is a serious disease in poor countries, which account for most of the 173,000 infections recorded globally in 2017.

7 years ago

More than half of all counties in the 39 states that rely on the federal HealthCare.gov exchange for ACA health insurance are experiencing a 10 percent price decrease, on average, for their cheapest plan for 2019. (Patrick Sison/AP)
NPR
Health

Many who buy ACA health plans for 2019 find lower prices and more choice

7 years ago

London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced a ban on junk food advertisements across the city's transportation network on Friday. The new rules will take effect on Feb. 25, 2019. (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Mind the junk food: London to ban ads for unhealthy eats on public transportation

7 years ago

Ochsner Baptist Hospital in New Orleans hasn't needed device reps' help since it started using technology from a company called Sight Medical that handles inventory management.
(Courtesy of Sight Medical)
NPR
Health

Sales reps may be wearing out their welcome in the operating room

In the operating room, surgical masks and matching scrubs can make it hard to tell who's who — at least for outsiders.

7 years ago

Residences leveled by the Camp Fire line a cul-de-sac in Paradise, Calif., earlier this month. A massive federal report says climate change is contributing to larger wildfires as well as other deadly extreme weather.
(Noah Berger/AP)
NPR
Health

Climate change is already hurting U.S. communities, federal report says

The fourth National Climate Assessment is the culmination of years of research and analysis by hundreds of top climate scientists in the country.

7 years ago

Investigators who are trying to track down the source of E. coli in romaine lettuce have seen this before. They're tracking the exact strain of bacteria that caused a small outbreak a year ago. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Investigators tracking latest romaine lettuce outbreak are feeling some deja vu

Over the past six weeks, at least 50 people in the U.S. and Canada have gone to the doctor suffering from the symptoms of food poisoning.

7 years ago

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