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Ski mountaineering will make its Olympic debut this year, the first winter sport to do so since 2002. Skeleton, luge, ski jumping and moguls are also getting new events.

Kid, meaning a young goat, is a word that was borrowed from the Vikings around the 9th century. Centuries later, it came to mean a child and a teasing joke.

Parkinson's disease appears to disrupt a brain network involved in everything from movement to memory.

Parkinson's disease can affect sleep, thinking and smell, as well as movement. A new study may explain why.

South Carolina released the newest numbers on its measles outbreak, and there's news of other cases around the country.

The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner is trying something new — instead of a musical for Broadway, he's written an opera, now playing in Philadelphia.

Homeless women face unique health challenges with few dedicated resources. And as the number of women experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles continues to grow, Dr. Mary Marfisee hopes to bring them lifesaving resources.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's efforts to revoke Temporary Protected Status for some 330,000 Haitian immigrants in the U.S., for now.

Experts warn that the expiration of a long-standing nuclear arms control treaty between the two superpowers could mark the start of a new nuclear rivalry.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ron Lieber, financial columnist for The New York Times, about the ins and outs of the newly created Trump Accounts.