Health

One of the first, big decisions parents have to make is whether or not to vaccinate their child. Vaccines are vital to public — ...

When you’re trading your medical school classroom for a soggy, chilly nature reserve — you better be prepared. During a wi ...

It was 3 a.m. I sat up in bed, disoriented. A man and a woman were shouting. Then I heard a loud thud, followed by a banging sound, as if furniture was being moved.

Many veterans come home and have trouble adjusting to civilian life, and that adjustment weighed heavily on Russel Keyser. In 2004 ...

Growing up, Regan Causey Tuder heard something that a lot of yo ...

Anxiety disorders are rising in kids. In their weekly conversation, psychologist Dan Gottlieb and WHYY’ ...

Dr. Dan Gottlieb explores the role of psychology in creativity through the lives of artists. He looks at Van Gogh’s struggle with menta ...

Rutgers University has opened one of New Jersey’s first clinics dedicated to treating psychosis in teens and young adults, the time of ...

People share LOTS of very personal health information online these days – with virtual strangers – ...

Thomas Starzl, whose death at age 90 was in the news last week, was the most driven man I've ever met.

I spend a lot of time in the place no one wants to be — the cancer center. Every two weeks I’m there with my husband. He is the p ...

In healthy people, earwax is self-cleaning. “It’s a useful thing,” says Fuad Baroody, an ear, nose, and throat s ...

It’s difficult to gross out David Rivers, a professor of biology at Loyola University Maryland. He’s a forensic entomologist, ...

People migrate for many different reasons – war, persecution, poverty. Here’s another reason: climate change. A 2015 ...

Conservationists are worried about stopping non-human traffic at the border. The U.S./Mexico border region is one of the most dive ...