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Metamed offers personalized research to people with difficult medical conditions. Critics call it health care for the 1 percent, but the company says it hopes to eventually help millions.

A growing body of evidence suggests that it's not just what we eat that's important. It's also when we eat that influence our health and waistlines. We take a look at the science.

Plan B One-Step, which costs around $50, will be available on pharmacy and other retail shelves without age restriction. But the much cheaper, two-pill versions will remain behind the pharmacy counter, with prescriptions required for those under age 17.

President Obama is in Galesburg, Illinois today. He's been there before and it turns out he's not the only president or future president to visit the small prairie town west of Chicago.

NPR's national political correspondent Mara Liasson joins us to talk about the politics of President Obama's economic speech at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.

Serious mental illness can take a toll — not only on the person experiencing the symptoms but on family members, too. The Bell family still struggles with the loss of Homer, their son and brother, who recently killed himself after living with schizophrenia for 30 years.

After much drama, the Senate finally voted on a student loan bill that would tie the borrower's rate to the 10-year Treasury note on Wednesday. The proposal is a bipartisan compromise and similar both to a House plan and one offered by President Obama.

The House rejected a measure that would have ended funding for a National Security Agency program that collects the phone records of Americans. The amendment to the defense spending bill had the support of liberal Democrats and libertarian Republicans, but was opposed by the Obama administration.

Daniels is one of the world's most celebrated countertenors: male vocalists who sing in a range usually associated with women. Hear a sneak preview from the new opera Oscar, starring the famous countertenor as Oscar Wilde.

Christopher Hopkins has a headache — and the data to prove it. He and other computer programmers are exploring ways to turn heaps of personal health stats into something shareable and easy on the eyes.