Baltimore Fights Heroin Overdoses With Antidote Outreach
A suspected case of measles. A rabid fox on the loose. A recall of a dye used in tattoos. A drug epidemic that's claiming hundreds of lives. Those are just a few of the problems that Dr. Leana Wen...
View ArticlePitching Health Care In Baltimore's Red Light District
Every Thursday night you can find Nathan Fields making the rounds of Baltimore's red light district, known to locals as The Block. An outreach worker with the Baltimore City Health Department, Fields,...
View ArticleAmid Violence, Chicago Parents Try To Inoculate Their Sons Against Fear
The protests in Chicago have been mostly peaceful. But it's not just about police. This is all happening against a backdrop of gang violence, including the recent killing of a 9-year-old boy who police...
View ArticleChicago Teens And Combat Veterans Join Forces To Process Trauma
If you took a map of Chicago and put down a tack for each person shot last year, you'd need nearly 3,000 tacks. Of those, 101 would be clustered in the neighborhood of East Garfield Park. That's where...
View ArticleCan Baltimore Provide Addiction Treatment On Demand?
Across the U.S., more than 20 million people abuse drugs or alcohol or both. Only about 1 in 10 is getting treatment . People seeking treatment often have to wait weeks or months for help. The delays...
View ArticleWhat's Next For Delegates For Bernie Sanders?
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View ArticleAt The Democratic Convention, Choreographing A Sea Of Signs
If you've been watching the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on TV, you've probably seen it happen a few times already: Every few minutes, a fresh wave of brightly colored signs — bearing...
View ArticleWill Trump Democrats In Wisconsin Swing Back To Their Party?
Democrat Michelle Frankard of Wisconsin voted for President Trump, and she's hoping she won't regret it. At the Garden of Eatin', a bustling diner in picturesque Galesville, Frankard is having...
View ArticleHow Do You Raise A Feminist Daughter? Chimamanda Adichie Has 15 Suggestions
A few years ago, Chimamanda Adichie received a message from a childhood friend asking for advice: She wanted to know how to raise her newborn daughter to be a feminist. For Adichie — a best-selling...
View ArticleSen. Elizabeth Warren's Call To Action: 'This Fight' Will Take Everybody
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been at the forefront of progressive politics over the last year. She has sparred with President Trump on Twitter, and she was reprimanded by Republicans on the...
View Article'The Handmaid's Tale' Wants You To Feel Like 'This Could Happen Here'
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is one of a handful of dystopian novels that have seen a boost in sales since the 2016 election. The book tells the story of what happens when a theocratic...
View ArticleRadical Grooves And Hometown Heroes: Cuba's Lasting Jazz Legacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieejS_NPNrI This Sunday is International Jazz Day. It's a tradition that began in 2011, when UNESCO — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
View ArticleReporter: Blast Hit Arena Full Of Young Girls At U.S. Pop Star's Concert
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: We want to update you now on an ongoing story - an attack on a pop concert in Manchester, England. Police there Report 19 dead, another 50 or...
View ArticleFrom Paris With Love: A Kansas City Musician Gets Distance And Perspective
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Krystle Warren has been compared to artists like Tracy Chapman and Nina Simone . The latter comparison is particularly intriguing: Not only does Warren share that...
View ArticleDramatic Increase In Number Of People Being Hospitalized Due To Opioids
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Numbers from the federal government today provide more detail about the extent of the nation's opioid crisis and who's affected. The report...
View ArticleFor The Venezuelan Opposition, Protests Are 'Like A War'
Venezuela's ongoing political and economic crisis has taken a toll on daily life there. A crash in oil prices and political instability under President Nicolas Maduro have led to food shortages, and...
View ArticleThousands Of Syrian Refugees To Return From Lebanon
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There's a massive move of Syrian refugees that started from northern Lebanon. Those refugees are actually going back to Syria. But this move...
View Article'That Fentanyl — That's Death': A Story Of Recovery In Baltimore
Two summers ago, we met a woman who went by the name Teacup. "I'm an active heroin user," she told us. "Thirty-three years as a matter of fact." We were in West Baltimore, reporting on a citywide...
View ArticleVermont Medical School Says Goodbye To Lectures
For students starting medical school, the first year can involve a lot of time in a lecture hall. There are hundreds of terms to master and pages upon pages of notes to take. But when the new class of...
View ArticleHow Smartphones Are Making Kids Unhappy
For the first time, a generation of children is going through adolescence with smartphones ever-present. Jean Twenge , a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, has a name for these...
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