NPR's Juana Summers speaks with writer and runner Ali Feller, host of the podcast Ali on the Run, about strategies she's used to get through a challenging year.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton severely impacted Florida counties, challenging healthcare providers' resilience.

Volunteering doesn't just benefit the people you are helping. It also improves your own health. Research shows people who do things for others have better brain and heart health.

Four weeks after a puzzling outbreak was reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has ...

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World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who escaped an Israeli airstrike in Yemen, says Gaza's health ...

President Carter helped lead a global health effort to eradicate the Guinea worm, a painful parasite which once infected more than 3 million people a year. Cases now number about a dozen a year.

Psychological first aid is the idea that interventions that can be done in the wake of a traumatic event to promote resilience and healing. Psychiatrist Robin Gurwitch helped develop the protocol.

Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfliling a young boy's dream of ...

Outbreaks are often seen on cruise ships, in living situations like nursing homes and jails, along with other places where ...

With two days left in the year, the most COVID deaths, 521, had been reported in Miami-Dade, followed by 448 in Palm Beach ...

"What's Health" does a review of the biggest health care stories of 2024 with Swapna Reddy, Chad Neilsen, Dr. Amy Hessler and ...