Health

One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Today Carolina Garzon is mom to smiling five-month-old Emma, but her first try at mot ...

Married women scientists with children are less likely to get a tenure track job than married men with children. Nancy Pleshko, a ...

Shawnee Baker was in labor — and her husband was trying his best to get her to the hospital in time. As they bumped along country roads ...

Three pharmacy school students gathered outside a windowless brick storefront in Fairhill, just blocks from Philadelphia’s most not ...

In Kansas City, the Jackson family is learning to live with the costs of a more public life. At age 3, the child Debi and Tom Jack ...

The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...

Guests: Emily Dreyfuss, Mary Anne Franks Facebook Live is intended to provide a way to send video of your life and exper ...

Guests: Angus Deaton, Anne Case, David Folkenflik For most western countries, mortality rates have been in declin ...

Are you avoiding looking at yourself in a mirror? No longer comfortable going to the pool – or maybe pl ...

The ill-conceived replacements for Obamacare would have left some 14 million Americans without health insurance and have an unh ...

Amy Marzolino watches her toddler, August, like a hawk, and with good reason. “I’m the mom who’s running across ...

In certain sports, rapid weight loss is extremely common and extremely dangerous. Boxers, wrestlers, muay thai and mixed martial a ...

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.