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We asked NPR listeners what they'd like to know about women's health in midlife. Hundreds of you had questions on topics from hormones to chin hairs. Two doctors are giving us the answers.

America’s health care leaders have spent two decades searching for a way to keep costly, complicated patients from cycling in and out of the hospital dozens of times a year. What have they learned?

Pet owners should have their dogs tested for heartworm each year, says Elizabeth Murphy, our pet healthy expert. “Heartworm disease is very, very common.…

Indiana has applied for a 10-year extension of its Medicaid health insurance program, known as the Healthy Indiana Plan. This fairly routine move sparked…

Ask any dog owner and they will tell you with certainty that their four legged friend can understand them. Now a study from the UK confirms it.Researchers…

The call came in late one summer night. Immediately, Paul Butler’s stomach sank and his heart sped up.“It’s always a worry in the back of your mind that…

BOSTON — After back-to-back, eight-hour shifts at a chiropractor’s office and a rehab center, Nirva arrived outside an elderly woman’s house just in time…

The state of mental health care in Mississippi has been in freefall for years.As a consequence of the ripple effects of the financial crisis, Mississippi…

The green health halo hovering over kale glows brightly, and the company is putting it in breakfast bowls in nine Southern California locations. Will it help brighten up the Golden Arches?

The FDA says tacos, tamales and other foods made with corn masa flour can now be fortified with folic acid. The move is aimed at reducing severe brain defects in babies born to Hispanic women.