Health

Ten times a day, on average, Facebook's artificial intelligence-driven detection system alerts authorities to someone who may be about to harm themselves.

In less than three weeks' time, Zachary Zarembinski recovered from severe brain injury and is now home.

In many California communities, the air quality is rated as very unhealthy or hazardous. Even in San Francisco and Oakland, where cities are covered with smoke from inland fires.

Jennie-O Turkey Store is recalling more than 91,000 pounds of raw turkey in an ongoing salmonella outbreak.

A memoir from the former first lady is bringing fresh attention to miscarriages and could help illuminate and normalize the common loss of a pregnancy.

Researchers are trying to understand how exposure to trauma cases affects clinicians and how they can get the mental health care they may need. For now, there are more questions than answers.

The number of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases reached a record high in Minnesota last year. MPR News host Kerri Miller and two sex educators talked about the potential sources behind the recent spike and what can be done in the classroom to help buck the trend.

Installment plans and refunds for treatments that don't work are two options getting more attention as ultra-expensive therapies become more common. The financial strains will only grow.

The nation's leading e-cigarette maker says it has halted store sales of some flavors to deter use by kids.

An estimated 30,000 people died from opioid overdoses in the U.S. in 2017. With so many people being affected, what is being done to treat addiction? MPR News host Kerri Miller sat down with two experts to try and answer those questions.

More children have been diagnosed with a mysterious paralyzing illness in recent weeks, and U.S. health officials said Tuesday that they still aren't sure what's causing it.

It's estimated that nearly half of all Americans over 65 own a gun or live with someone who does. And 7 million in the U.S. have dementia, a number that's expected to double within two decades.

Jay Alix, a corporate turnaround specialist who serves on the board of Mayo Clinic, is donating $200 million to the medical school, which will be renamed the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in his honor.

A growing number of schools are building greenhouses or in some way getting into local food production. While the locally grown food isn't a big money saver, it has increased healthy food choices for students and increased student interest in where the food they eat comes from.

Ecologist Rob Dunn's new book describes the tiny life forms, helpful and risky, that live in different parts of the home, including on floors and in water faucets, basements and heating systems.

The settlement is expected to be far less than the billion-dollar agreement reached between the NFL and its former players on the same issue. The NHL said it does not acknowledge any liability for any of the players' claims.

The worker shortage is a relatively new experience for Minnesota employers, but in the mental health field, it's a long-running problem and getting worse as demand for services rises.

Only 20 percent of Americans get enough exercise now, and the childhood obesity problem has prompted the push to aim younger to prevent poor health later in life.

According to the AAP, research shows that spanking is harmful to child development, in the long run. The AAP also says to avoid non-physical punishment that is humiliating, scary or threatening.