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Illicit drug use runs in cycles, and right now young adults are favoring marijuana over opioids or amphetamines. But they're still indulging a lot less than people in the baby boom generation.

A community center serving those with severe mental illness in Indianapolis is working to regain state Medicaid funding in order to help community members…

If 2015 was the year of the period, 2016 may be the year when women have to pay less for sanitary supplies, or even get them for free. Some state, local and federal legislators are pushing for change.

Research from Denmark suggests about one-third of lumps detected by routine mammograms would never have become dangerous. That puts women at risk of needless surgery, radiation or chemotherapy.

Journalist Beth Macy has chronicled the origins of the opioid crisis in Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America. In the new…

Sending a child to overnight camp can be nerve-wracking for any parent. It’s even scarier if they have a child with a chronic illness. But a camp in…

Kickback allegations against its former editor prompted the Journal of Patient Safety to review his writings and adopt new rules for disclosing commercial conflicts of interest.

A new generation of baby monitors lets new parents track their child's heartbeat and other vital signs. But they're not health devices, a pediatrician warns, and could give a false sense of security.

Last fall the National Institutes of Health announced it has given out roughly $10 million in research funding aimed at correcting gender imbalance in…

A new state law requires that condoms be made available to all prison inmates — even though state law also forbids sex between prisoners.