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There is just one week left to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. NPR's Julie Rovner answers last-minute questions about what happens after that.

Patient X arrives. She ran a fever. Now it's gone. But she has diarrhea. Should you test for the virus or not? That's the kind of case history presented to health workers heading to West Africa.

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/081813_7.mp3Lee Wilbur, M.D., visits “Sound Medicine” for a special game show inspired segment. Dr. Wilbur is an…

An appeals ruling Tuesday removed a stay against a 2011 state law that prohibits doctors from asking patients about gun ownership or use when it's not…

I knew that a child had died by the way that she paused and glanced at her husband when I asked “how many children do you have?” She was eighty-four years…

Sovaldi, a relatively new hepatitis C medication, retails at about $1,000 a pill in the United States. But according to the New York Times, Sovaldi's…

At UC San Francisco and other hospitals and clinics around the nation, “shared decision making” programs encourage doctors and patients to work together…

Such attacks among women and some men with an opioid addiction often go unreported because the victims fear retaliation from drug dealers or charges from police.

In the '50s, four people collaborated to create a pill so women could enjoy sex. They fibbed about their motivations and skirted the law. Jonathan Eig details the history in The Birth of the Pill.

If not for flawed classification of deaths, medical mistakes would be the third leading cause of U.S. deaths, Johns Hopkins researchers say. They're calling on the CDC to track deaths from errors.