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Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of subsidies key to the success of the Affordable Care ...

How Thomas Evans served royalty and helped modernize dentistry. Not every dentist gets to be Napoleon III’s dentist. That ho ...

Linda Wang, a medical student from Canada with a hankering for jazz, was just passing through Philadelphia visiting family when she disco ...

A cross-country flight quickly turns into a medical student’s worst nightmare. As the long Thanksgiving weekend of 2014 drew ...

Sales on medical widgets are helping to pay for the health law. Device makers say the tax is a job-killer. High on the to-do list ...

What exactly is a vitamin? How many vitamins are out there? And why do we believe vitamins are so good for our health?  In he ...

DJ Rich Medina talks with Dr. James Peterson about his involvement with the GrassROOTS Community Foundation and its annual fundraiser, wh ...

Brian Wansink of Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab on helpful tips to reconfigure your kitchen and drop some pounds in the pr ...

If there’s mold in the basement, that’s hard to ignore. When the roof leaks, you fix it. But a radon problem in your house is ...

The Smithsonian Institution has mined its archives to produce a television documentary ...

As data from large telescopes becomes more and more readily available to everyone, hobby astronomers are helping make true contributions ...

A blow to the head left NPR producer Theo Balcomb with a minor traumatic brain injury and a deep need to sleep and heal. Her sister took ...

Paul Ballas has struggled with lifelong obesity. But using his Xbox fitness to work out at home, Ballas has dropped close to 60 pounds in ...

Ten days, a dark room, no cell phone and no television – that’s how ...

In the 1950s, the DuPont chemical company, based in Delaware, came out with a product that might have made the biggest impact on how you ...