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The Indiana Women’s Prison has taken hard measures to contain the coronavirus. Many inmates in the prison have spent long periods locked in their cells —…

Quick treatment with Narcan can save a life after an overdose of heroin or opioid pain pills. The year 2014 saw more police, drug users and their families carrying Narcan "rescue kits."

Philip Kirby says he first used heroin during a stint in a halfway house a few years ago, when he was 21 years old. He quickly formed a habit."You can't…

Schizophrenia typically starts in the late teens or early 20s. But if you could stop that first psychotic break, could you stop the mental illness in its tracks? Some doctors think so.

The city's major birthing hospitals have now stopped sending new moms home with baby formula, to encourage breastfeeding.

"We begin this week with a success story: How one state tackled the problem of prescription drug overdoses and is making progress," says host Barbara…

According to the National Institutes of Health, 150 trials are currently underway testing therapies using stem cells from umbilical cord blood. “These are…

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/041507_full.mp3This week, David Hayes, MD, professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and his…

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/063013_2.mp3"Sound Medicine" regular Kathy Miller, M.D., recently attended the American College of Clinical…

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/032413_4.mp3Daniel Cox, Ph.D., director of the Center for Behavioral Medicine Research and professor of…