Medicine

Some rape victims have to travel hours to get an exam from a nurse with special training and forensic expertise. Debbie Holbrook s ...

Guests: Maria Quiñones-Sánchez, Silvana Mazzella, Carol Rostucher, Mike Newall The cleanup of the heroin encamp ...

Gov. Chris Christie wants to transfer responsibility for New Jersey’s four state psychiatric hospitals, community-based mental health a ...

When schools and offices take vacation — people do too — blood donations slow down, leaving hospitals and blood banks to hustle for b ...

Sleep is the new skinny. Americans are obsessed with a good night’s rest — after decades of viewing sleep as a waste of time for ...

Guests: Ruth Abaya, Scott Charles, Ralph Demicco, Marty Vriniotis The statistics around guns and children are sta ...

A museum exhibit helped Vashti DuBois finally sleep after nearly 3 years of unrest. Standing in her living room — a serene, dark ...

We’re paying millions for plush mattresses and gee whiz gadgets — but a little “sleep hygiene̶ ...

Guests: Margot Sanger-Katz, Julie Rovner, Ralph Muller The Senate released their health care plan to repeal and r ...

How can we live in a modern society — what some would call the greatest country in the world — and not provide health care as a right ...

After working overnight, an ER doctor does her best to sleep during the sunniest hours. While Dorian Jacobs’ husband and tod ...

Guest: Mitch Prinstein Most of us have some painful memories from our school days – maybe we were always the la ...

Many recovery homes in Philadelphia are not licensed, unregulated and are illegally receiving thousands of dollars per month from drug tr ...

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks that looks at the personal ...

When I went to the doctor on a cold November evening to find out whether I was having a boy or a girl, the last thing I was expecting to ...