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Some people with disabilities are caught up in the Medicaid unwinding process and losing their coverage despite their best efforts.

In August, the Pulaski County, Missouri, police captain Johnny Burgess ran his team through a new kind of training exercise. Divided into pairs, each…

Getting Right, Part 3Read the whole Getting Right series.On a recent Thursday afternoon, Police Chief Don Spicer is on patrol in Austin, Indiana. He…

They're not as ubiquitous as blood or sperm banks, but another kind of biological substance also sits in cold storage ready to treat desperately ill or…

Loneliness takes a toll on many aspects of health, in part because it activates a fight-or-flight immune response. That may have helped ancestors survive lonely exile, but can slowly kill us today.

A father brought his teenage son back from the capital. The boy fell ill. The parents blamed an attack by a magical leopard. But it was Ebola.

Jay Zimmerman got his first BB gun when he was 7, and his first shotgun when he was 10.“Growing up in Appalachia, you look forward to getting your first…

The Zika virus may have infected more than 1 million people in Puerto Rico, including thousands of pregnant women. Doctors are watching babies born to infected moms who don't show birth defects.

New research shows that schizophrenia isn’t a single disease but a group of eight genetically distinct disorders, each with its own set of symptoms. The…

A young doctor put on a protective suit so he could examine a man who might be sick with SARS. It was hard to tell who was more frightened: the doctor or the patient.