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With Obamacare battles largely behind us, presidential candidates in 2016 seem focused on other issues. Healthcare played starring ...

The National Institute of Mental Health is searching for a new director who will inherit a battle over how we think about afflictions of ...

In health care, interventions can make a huge difference. Can you reduce deaths related to gun violence by teaching more people first aid ...

Since October, plumbers with United Association Local 370 in Flint have been volunteering to install filters and faucets to remove lead f ...

When children get sick at school, it can be a big disruption. For the kids – they have to miss class – and for mom or dad, they have ...

When the Degenharts bought their house, they knew it would be a fixer-upper. But they didn’t know that it would land their son, Jos ...

Human trafficking in the United States is common, and it is often hidden in plain sight. “This is happening all around us, ...

Marylou Kelly Streznewski describes herself as a model of health. And for most of her life, she took it for granted. But that chan ...

In Philadelphia, it’s gun violence that makes first aid skills so necessary for ordinary residents. After the Paris bombings ...

Oberon Wackwitz has a boyish face and easy smile, he’s a sharp dresser. He’s 20 years old, and in college. With his friendly, ...

Pam Gilbert could hear things that other people couldn’t. That superpower quickly turned into a nightmare when she began to hear no ...

Why does it feel good when your sweetheart’s hand brushes your arm?  “If you were to follow the touch sensation i ...

What do horses and zebras have to do with making patient care decisions?  In the practice of medicine, one of the greatest ch ...

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It’s the same enemy, but a different kind of war. The way we’re fighting drug epidemics today looks vastly different than the ...