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For a variety of reasons, the people in eastern Congo are skeptical about the international efforts to quash the Ebola crisis that has claimed 2,000 lives so far.

It's been about 40 years since the FBI first declassified its cache of documents on Catholic Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

State regulators and even one medevac company have raised doubts about prepaid subscriptions and promised benefits offered by air ambulance companies. Gaps in coverage can be a problem.

Thousands of medical workers have left the country. Those who remain at public institutions earn very low wages — and often have to moonlight to make ends meet.

Some worry that New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner's office was too slow to acknowledge the scale of the election security problem and focused on addressing the wrong challenges.

Inspired by gospel, the standout from U2's American experiment, The Joshua Tree, has become a rock and roll hymn, even finding its way into real-life church services.

There are very different perspectives on the impact the political crisis is having on the people of Kashmir. The Lancet weighed in — and an association of Indian doctors had an angry reaction.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kristi Daugherty, CEO of Emergence Health Network, about the increase in people seeking mental health care assistance in El Paso, Texas.

As hybrid varieties gained popularity, hundreds of indigenous strains of rice — and knowledge about them — disappeared. But chefs, farmers and researchers are trying to reconnect to that heritage.

Public health has come a long way since the deadly flu, but we find ourselves in an oddly similar moment, using many of the same measures employed in 1918, a medical historian says.