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Last year, NPR's health reporters dug into the science of healthy living. Here are 9 things they learned that can help you embrace small shifts with big payoffs in 2024.

A new program in New Jersey will help those with disabilities enjoy more outdoor recreation areas and services.

The state saw a large increase in those deaths between 2017 and 2022.

Experts are concerned that the number of flu and COVID-19 patients in hospitals could peak at around the same time and strain capacity.

The new law provides guidelines for how hospitals should treat immigrant patients and gives immigrants more say.

High levels of flu-like illnesses were reported last week in 17 states — up from 14 the week before, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

This is the year that the COVID-19 pandemic was declared to be no longer a global health emergency.

Delawareans can connect to Code Purple resources via Delaware 211 by calling or texting 211.

This was the year many people finally exhaled. The pandemic was declared no longer an emergency. But viral threats are still here and there are lessons we haven't learned.

When a person’s heart has stopped due to cold, hospitals pump warm liquid into the space around their lungs to try to revive them.

Some 16,000 city workers have undergone special training to help people with sensory disorders.

The proposed deal between Jefferson Health and Lehigh Valley Health Network could close by the end of 2024, according to a joint announcement from the hospital systems.

The recalled pouches have been linked to dozens of illnesses in U.S. kids.

Members of the UAW union disrupted a meeting of a state Assembly committee that had been scheduled to take a preliminary vote on a bill to ban smoking in the casinos.

The court's action sets up a collision between the Food and Drug Administration's 23-year study and supervision of mifepristone.