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Health care, books and recreation are all available under one roof at the Health and Literacy Center in South Philadelphia.The brand-new $45 million…

What We've Been Reading This Week:America's Kids Are Healthier, But Racial Divides PersistFewer children are dying in infancy and before adulthood and…

This week: Doctors are learning new tricks about how to treat addiction ... on pork. Drug price controls might not offer all the protection we hope it…

Dr. Kent Brantly, an American Ebola survivor, tells NPR what it was like to suffer from the deadly and "humiliating" disease.

Interview HighlightsLewis: A prominent breast cancer researcher recently called for a major expansion in genetic screening for breast and ovarian cancer.…

"Sometimes just what the doctor ordered might be a tree or a patch of lawn, maybe the chance to walk in the woods. Nearly a decade ago now, journalist…

Physicians may be wasting time with tasks that could be done by others with less training on their teams. That's the finding of recent research from…

Home treatments by paramedics are a growing trend. The goal is to lower hospital costs, but there are worries about who actually pays.

In Drogaria Tefé, a pharmacy in the small city in of Tefé in the Brazilian Amazon, the powerful antibiotic Clindamycin is as easy to access as a chocolate…

The American College of Physicians says annual pelvic exams aren't necessary for healthy women and could be harmful. But not all doctors agree, and the new recommendation is stirring up debate.