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Unless a cigarette is safer than others, it can't be labeled "natural" or "additive-free," the Food and Drug Administration told three manufacturers.

The killings of two journalists in Virginia last week have reignited a national conversation on mass shootings and gun control. Tania Lombrozo looks at some research and what it might mean for policy.

After the state of California fined her employer $4 million in 2013 for violating the legal rights of mental health patients, Oakland psychologist Melinda…

Interview with Ronald Bayer, Professor of Social Science at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public HealthPrecision medicine has a lot of important…

Long known as a party drug, MDMA is now used in clinical trials as a means of grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder. One patient credits the substance with saving her from suicidal thoughts.

The Affordable Care Act passed its second major test before the Supreme Court Thursday. In King v. Burwell the Supreme Court upheld a key measure of the…

Kim Hudak was a young mother who was done having children when she volunteered for a clinical trial to an experimental birth control implant designed to…

Local governments say the move to cover preventive health care for people who are in the country illegally will save money overall by reducing the high cost of emergency room visits.

About 100,000 people in the United States have sickle cell disease, and most of them are African-American. While there is effective care for the disease, it's difficult for patients to obtain.

WARRIOR, Ala. — The day Dr. Arthur Green (not his real name) checked into his rustic cabin here at Bradford Health Services, he said he doubted he could…