Many Nurses Lack Knowledge Of Health Risks To Mothers After Childbirth
In recent months, mothers who nearly died in the hours and days after giving birth have repeatedly told ProPublica and NPR that their doctors and nurses were often slow to recognize the warning signs...
View ArticleCanadian Man Details Horrors Family Endured In Years Held By Haqqani Network
The Pakistani army rescued a Canadian-American family last week who had been held by a Taliban-affiliated group in Afghanistan for five years. Canadian Joshua Boyle and his American wife Caitlan...
View ArticleMore Destructive, Expensive, Dangerous: What's Ramping Up Wildfires?
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This year's fire season in Northern California is one of its worst. Over 200,000 acres burned, thousands of homes destroyed, more than 40...
View ArticleMortician Explores Cultures' Many Paths For 'Sacred Transition' Of Death
When Sandra Daugherty's father died unexpectedly at 73, there was no plan. The only thing the family knew was what Grady Ross Daugherty didn't want. "He was really freaked out about cement liners,"...
View ArticleOn Iran, Health Care And Environment, Trump Turns To Executive Actions
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: The Trump administration has had a busy week taking big bites out of some signature Obama-era policies. It's repealing a plan to limit...
View ArticleAuthor Says Gossip Helps Protect Women From Workplace Predators
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: For many people in Hollywood, Weinstein's behavior did not come as a surprise. Rumors had circulated for years, and that gossip network...
View ArticleWhen You Want To Give, Here's How To Vet Your Options
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: This is The Call-In. (SOUNDBITE OF CORDUROI'S "MY DEAR") MONTAGNE: Devastating hurricanes, a major earthquake in Mexico City, forest fires...
View ArticleBlack Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why
On a melancholy Saturday this past February, Shalon Irving's "village" — the friends and family she had assembled to support her as a single mother — gathered at a funeral home in a prosperous black...
View Article'Heroin(e)': The Women Fighting Addiction In Appalachia
The opioid epidemic has hit Huntington, W.Va., very hard, with an overdose rate 10 times the national average. Documentary filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon chose Huntington as the setting for her...
View ArticleAndrew Lloyd Webber's Genius Is 'Unmasked' In New Memoir
Arguably the most successful musical theater composer ever, Andrew Lloyd Webber looks back on his early days in the business in the new memoir, Unmasked . The tome will be released March 6. It's over...
View ArticleFamily Tree Goes Back 11 Generations, Includes 13 Million People
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And now to what's considered the largest family tree ever scientifically mapped - it stretches back five centuries and includes 13 million...
View ArticlePartition, Through A Child's Eyes, In 'The Night Diary'
The Night Diary is novel set at a pivotal — and bloody — moment in history, and told in the voice of a 12-year-old girl. Nisha takes us on her personal journey as part of the mass exodus of millions of...
View ArticleIn 'No Turning Back,' The 'Epic' Journeys Of Four Syrians In Wartime
Journalist Rania Abouzeid has had a front-row view of the conflict in Syria from the very beginning. "I witnessed what was one of the first demonstrations in Damascus in late February 2011, and I was...
View ArticleFor Every Woman Who Dies In Childbirth In The U.S., 70 More Come Close
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Dsn4obCa4 Samantha Blackwell was working her way through a master's degree at Cleveland State University when she found out she was pregnant. "I was 25, in really good...
View ArticleRussia — And Grandma — Defy Expectations In 'A Terrible Country'
It's the summer of 2008, and Andrei Kaplan doesn't have a whole lot going for him in New York. Money's tight, his girlfriend dumped him, and, at 33, his academic career has stalled. So, at the urging...
View ArticleArt's 'Sense Of Humor' Chronicled At The National Gallery Of Art
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Here is a challenge for you. Name one great painting that makes you laugh. If none comes to mind now or ever, that's probably because......
View ArticleTo Keep Women From Dying In Childbirth, Look To California
When Cayti Kane delivered a baby boy via cesarean section last year, her team of doctors was prepared. Kane had been diagnosed with placenta accreta, a condition that increased the likelihood of a...
View ArticleBoz Scaggs Processes The Past And Rebuilds For The Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmj6khcLM2Y Boz Scaggs is likely best known for his affiliation with the Steve Miller Band or 1976 songs like " Lido Shuffle " and " Lowdown ." But through the years,...
View ArticleThe Necks' Latest Composition 'Body' Clocks In At Over 56 Minutes
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: A typical album by The Necks contains just one track, one long track - piano, bass, drums, music that stretches out in a jazzy mesmerizing...
View ArticleSecrets Of A Teenage WWII Spy In 'Transcription'
During World War II, the British were worried about their own countrymen with Nazi sympathies. That's the historical basis for Kate Atkinson's new novel, Transcription . It follows a character named...
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