Alok Shukla is one of the winners of the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize. He's cited for a campaign to keep a company from felling a forest in India to excavate the coal that lies beneath.
When Rachel Somerstein had an emergency C-section with her first child, the anesthesia didn't work. She recounts her own experience and the history of C-sections in her book, Invisible Labor.
From Florida to Arizona, reproductive rights supporters seek to add abortion access to state constitutions after the U.S. Supreme Courtoverturned the federal right to abortion in 2022.
The 59-year-old says her decision to donate $1 billion was in part due to the racial gap in women's mortality rates. She most recently stepped down as co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Humans rely on our symbiotic relationship with good microbes—in the gut, the skin and ... the vagina. Fatima Aysha Hussain studies what makes a healthy vaginal microbiome. She talks to host Emily Kwong about her long-term transplant study that asks the question: Can one vagina help another through a microbe donation?
There are lots of reasons people have to stop taking the new weight loss drugs: cost, shortages, side effects and life events. And the weight usually comes back, doctors say.
After a shooting, relatives or neighbors of the victim are sometimes left to clean up human remains on their own. Philadelphia's new program will start addressing that fraught task.
Mandy Messinger is one of hundreds who lose loved ones to climate-linked extreme weather each year in the U.S. Her father Craig Messinger was killed in a 2021 flash flood in the Philadelphia suburbs.
Wildfires, hurricanes, flash floods and heat waves contribute to deaths across the U.S. every year. Have you lost a loved one in an extreme weather event? Share your story.
Fifteen-year-old Ella Velez’s favorite gymnastics event is vault. The vault is quick, and she doesn’t have to think very much about what she’s doing unlike other, slower events like the balance beam. But for the past couple of years, Velez has had to be focused on regulating her blood sugar every time she performs gymnastics. But a longtime endocrinologist based in Columbus, Dr. Steven Leichter, helped Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown become one of the first medical facilities in the country to administer a new treatment designed to delay the onset of Type 1 diabetes.
Anne Banfield left West Virginia in early 2022 and is now an OB-GYN in Maryland. As the 2024 election approaches, she fears more change and uncertainty is on the way.
The Texas Medical Board has drafted guidelines for doctors to decide when an abortion is necessary and legal under the state's strict ban. The rules were widely panned at a recent public hearing.
