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The Orphan Drug Act was created to help patients with rare diseases get life-saving medications. But soaring prices suggest the law is being manipulated to increase profits.

To avoid penalties, people who didn't have health insurance in 2016 or who got federal assistance to pay the premiums need to take a little extra care when completing their tax forms this year.

A throat singer, a hip-hop preacher, an Irish introvert: NPR Music's Bob Boilen says it was the Year of the Woman at the South By Southwest music festival. He shares some of his favorite performances.

More than half of young people with autism have neither a job nor educational plans in the first two years after high school, a study finds.

Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has again shaken up the team’s leadership, this time at the very top. Joe Banner is out as CEO. General Manager…

Twice a day, like clockwork, people release balloons around the world at the same time. These balloons are scientific tools, and the people releasing them are meteorologists.

Member station KUCB tagged along with a meteorologist at one of America's most remote weather stations. This story originally aired on Dec. 22, 2015, on All Things Considered.

In North Carolina and around the country, districts are facing a problem: low teacher pay that means new hires can't afford to live in the community.

Whiskey, Peanut and Nadia the Wonder Goat are currently removing weeds in Congressional Cemetery.

The Food Surgeon, a channel on YouTube, turns a camera and a doctor's operating tools on familiar foods. It's just art, says the guy behind the videos, a food-loving engineer in Seattle.