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Puerto Rico has been sending athletes to the Olympics since 1948, a stretch in which it amassed eight Olympic medals, none of them gold. Tennis star Monica Puig changed that on Saturday.

The HPV vaccine has lowered the number of women with HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to cancer, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Dr. Joseph Bocchini from Louisiana State University to get his read on the results.

Pat Summitt is being remembered for the mark she left on women’s athletics. Summitt, the winningest coach in college basketball history, died Tuesday at...

As many as 99,000 low income Ohioans who want birth control and reproductive health care services have fewer options now that Planned Parenthood...

Two days before the start of hurricane season, Puerto Rico's governor outlined the steps his government has taken to prepare. He also responded to the Harvard study on the number of deaths after Hurricane Maria.

Storms, warmer waters and coral-eating starfish have harmed the iconic coral reef system off Australia's coast. Now the Australian government has announced a plan to boost funding for the reef.

The exact number of those who died in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria remains unknown two years after the storm made landfall.

Terry Pluto reflects on Cleveland native and '64 Olympic gold medalist, Paul Drayton, who remains relatively unknown to many in his home state.

Fears that violence could mar the demonstrations against President Macron's unpopular pension reforms has led to deployment of 13,000 officers, nearly half of them concentrated in the French capital.

China has long quashed any memory of the killings, when the government ordered in the army to end the months-long protests and uphold Communist rule. The death toll remains unknown to this day.