Medicine

People with drug-resistant tuberculosis take many pills over a long period of time. Cure rate is low.

Doctors warn of poor health and rising costs they say will come from sweeping Trump administration changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid.

Renee Bach founded a charity that went on to care for over 900 severely malnourished babies and children. Now she is being sued by two of the mothers whose children died.

In a letter Friday, the dean of the medical college said those who applied for tuition remission can still collect it for themselves and their dependents.

Globally, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming an increasing problem. The Wistar Institute convened researchers to discuss alternative treatments.

It weakens an import ban that has stood as a symbol of the political clout of the pharmaceutical industry.

Emily Steinberg, a painter and graphic novelist, believes comics are a powerful way to confront feelings and combat loneliness in medicine.

Worldwide, childhood cancers are relatively rare, but they're a far bigger problem than previously believed. Close to half of all kids with cancer go undiagnosed and untreated

The owner of the hospital, which plans to close, announces it will free up the federal dollars trainee doctors need to seek employment elsewhere.

For the first time, a federal court in Ohio is releasing a trove of data that offers far more detail about the size and scope of the nation's opioid epidemic

The proposed closure timeline released Tuesday still needs official approval from the city Health Commissioner’s Office and the state Health Department.

Hahnemann's own bankruptcy filings say a plan to close the hospital involves the largest "orphaning" of medical residents the country's ever seen.

The fate of the ACA is again on the line, as a federal appeals court in New Orleans takes up a case in which a lower court judge has already ruled the law unconstitutional.

We start the hour talking with U.S. Representative Madeleine Dean about her visit to migrant detentions centers and then, we discuss the role compassion plays in medicine.

In low-income countries, "test and treat" is not the typical approach to prevention. There has been no research to support it.