When mental health professionals don't take insurance, only the wealthy can afford their help. Joe Houghton/Getty Images hide caption
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Women from a traditional sea-harvesting community fish in Mozambique. Michael D. Kock/Nature hide caption
Wednesday
HeLa cells, commonly used in research, were derived from cervical cancer cells taken in 1951 from Henrietta Lacks without her permission. Science Source hide caption
Glenn Baker, 44, stands in his South Side apartment that is paid for by a program of the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago. Miles Bryan/WBEZ hide caption
The backlog of appeals of denied Medicare claims will take years to clear up even after changes proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Ten-year-old Matthew Husby gets some low-tech comfort from his father after surgery at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif. Heidi de Marco/Kaiser Health News hide caption
A marijuana plant is displayed during the 2016 Cannabis Business Summit & Expo last month in Oakland, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
A Syrian boy in a clinic in Aleppo receives an injection for the "Aleppo button" — one of the names used for the welts caused by leishmaniasis. Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Virginia Anderlini (right) was the first private client to try out Dr. Sonya Kim's new virtual reality program for the elderly, and says she's eager to see more. Kim's handful of programs are still at the demo stage. Kara Platoni/KQED hide caption
Doctors At Southern Hospitals Take The Most Payments From Drug, Device Companies
Moraine Park is a grassy valley inside Rocky Mountain National Park. Wes Lindamood/NPR hide caption
Tuesday
Sweet potato evangelist Maria Isabel Andrade drives around Mozambique in her orange Toyota Land Cruiser in 2012. She is one of four researchers honored with the World Food Prize for promoting the crop to combat malnutrition. Dan Charles/NPR hide caption
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a lab in Recife, Brazil. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which have been known to carry the Zika virus, buzz in a laboratory in Cucuta, Colombia. Ricardo Mazalan/AP hide caption