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When summer brings heat, humidity and mosquitoes, cities along the Gulf Coast may become gateways for Zika into the U.S. Impoverished areas are likely to bear the brunt, health officials say.

Last summer, Seth Doraiswami, a stonemason from Belmont, Massachusetts planned a trip to Wisconsin, to get a new liver.Doraiswami, 33, was born with a…

After scandals around veterans waiting too long for care in 2014, Congress pushed through a $10 billion fix to get those vets care, fast. Now it's almost unanimous: The fix is broken.

290 billion dollars are spent each year in avoidable healthcare costs related to medication non-adherence - including emergency department,…

Reginald Rogers of Gary, Indiana owes his dentist a debt of gratitude for his new dentures, but no money.Indiana’s Medicaid program has them covered, a…

The American College of Physicians will lobby Congress to allow the re-importation of medicines from other countries and to let Medicare bargain with drugmakers over price. Will lawmakers go along?

Exposure to chemicals found in plastic food containers, personal care products and household construction materials has been linked to endometriosis, a…

A survey of more than 3,500 people caring for family members with dementia finds that many are spending down personal savings and cutting into their own basic needs to meet their loved one's expenses.

Mental health services for children can be difficult to access in Rhode Island. But a new public-private partnership is trying to make those services…

Four days a week, public health nurse Brittany Combs drives her SUV around the small town of Austin, Indiana, handing out clean needles to injection drug…