Medicine

A new study suggests that African-American women are more likely to suffer from Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and are more likely to worsen before getting better.

Some say this is a turning point in using these treatments for cancer, and expect more developments in the future.

What we eat and how we feed ourselves is inherently cultural and political in nature.

Humans have a long history of sharing breast milk, but society’s acceptance has ebbed and flowed.

State-by-state analysis of spending on prison health care shows Pennsylvania near the bottom.

Surgery in the nineteenth-century was pretty gruesome – a lot of blood, pain, saws and no sanitation.  In fact, operating theaters use ...

Guests: Lindsey Fitzharris, Dan Lamothe Surgery in the nineteenth-century was pretty gruesome – a lot of blood, ...

President Trump has been taking steps to undermine the ACA through executive order, as Congress has been able to repeal and replace the l ...

On the first Friday of this month, four inmates at the Cumberland County jail in South Jersey overdosed in their cells almost simultaneously.

Guests: Kate Tuttle, Dan De Luce, Mary Agnes Carey We begin our show today talking about the Boy Scouts and their ...

The therapy can help children with a rare genetic eye disorder see better. It comes after two other recent significant developments in gene therapy.

Former Vice President Joe Biden visits Warminster to announce efforts of son's foundation to train medical professionals in better recognizing signs of molestation.

Gov. Chris Christie devotes $200 million in initiatives, rest of his term to battling tide of opioid overdoses.

Hospitals treating poor populations could be seeing cuts to subsidies in 2017.

As the Trump administration moves to end DACA, health care providers rally behind the roughly 20,000 recipients they say fill important needs in the medical industry.