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One patient told infectious disease physician Nahid Bhadelia, "I am nobody." After 12 days in Sierra Leone, caring for the sick, she couldn't disagree more.

Note: This piece contains descriptions of violence and self-harm that may be disturbing to some readers. In late June, Danielle was the only correctional…

Federal health officials recommend that preschoolers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder receive psychological counseling before they are put on…

Jennifer Crook is a trained and certified midwife living in Birmingham, Alabama, who has presided over about 200 home births. But to do so, she and her…

Open enrollment for the health law’s 2016 marketplace plans began Sunday, and federal officials caution consumers to check out premium prices because in…

SAN ANTONIO— Yolanda Solar has battled a life-threatening disease for more than three decades.The disease nearly killed her last summer, and Solar, a…

Many older patients have problems that an emergency room is ill-equipped to handle, but often there is nowhere else to go. So some hospitals are adding palliative care consultants to the front lines.

Ron Fleming is 74 now, but he's spent most of his life trying to recapture what life felt like when he was 21, fighting in Vietnam.Fleming was a door…

Fifty years after the death of Martin Luther King Jr., his hometown still has major racial disparities in mortality and other measures of health.

A new Illinois statute aims to boost flu shot rates among healthcare workers by making it harder for employees to decline the vaccine.Lawmakers say this…