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NPR's Jason Beaubien joins us from Liberia, which the United Nations says is now the epicenter of reported cases.

"It's been almost 25 years since Ryan White died of HIV, which he acquired from contaminated blood cells used to treat his hemophilia. Now, hemophilia…

Near the Fort Hood military base, Walmart recently opened a Care Clinic that has everything a typical doctor’s office has – except a doctor.

The HIV outbreak in Scott County five years ago prompted Indiana lawmakers to allow the creation of needle exchanges. The programs provide clean needles…

An Ohio doctor being investigated for the suspicious deaths of dozens of hospital patients has been charged with 25 counts of murder.A prosecutor said…

What We're Reading This Week Precision medicine, a new model of healthcare in which physicians use information about a patient’s particular genetic makeup…

Black women are three times more likely to die from complications of childbirth than white women in the U.S. Racism, and the stress it causes, can play a leading role in that disparity.

In the world of physicians, there are hundreds of specialties—neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, dermatologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists...all the…

Looking across four lanes of traffic on Washington Street in Indianapolis, community planner Brent Aldrich steels himself for a difficult crossing. “When…

Most genetic studies look only at people of European descent. But black and Hispanic children are far more likely to die of asthma, and genetic differences may help explain why.