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After the state of California fined her employer $4 million in 2013 for violating the legal rights of mental health patients, Oakland psychologist Melinda…

Health centers that serve Kansans who lack insurance or struggle to pay for primary health care are seeing no lack of demand for their services.Rebecca…

Interview with Ronald Bayer, Professor of Social Science at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public HealthPrecision medicine has a lot of important…

When the only grocery store in the small community of Alderson, West Virginia closed last November, it cut residents off from their only local option for…

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…

Google made a name for itself with search technology, but it has dabbled in moonshot projects like self-driving cars. Now the company's life science unit is looking for better diabetes treatments.

E-cigarettes may set young people on the path to smoking regular cigarettes, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics.Between 2012 and 2013,…

Mobile apps and wearable devices, like Fitbits and Jawbones, help us keep track of everything from our heart rates, physical exercise to sleep and…

Robert Anderson may know more about death than anybody else in the United States.Anderson is chief of mortality statistics for the Centers for Disease…

Long known as a party drug, MDMA is now used in clinical trials as a means of grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder. One patient credits the substance with saving her from suicidal thoughts.