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Buprenorphine is an FDA-approved medication used to treat opioid addiction, but it can be hard to get. That leaves some people suffering from addiction…

Children with severe mental illnesses encounter many barriers to treatment. But some parents have discovered a workaround of last resort: they can trade…

For many people, life goes on after a diabetes diagnosis. But for others, the high price of insulin has forced them to devise dangerous and sometimes…

People with rare metabolic disorders need medical foods to keep from going hungry, but costs and regulations mean some go without or have to find a…

Nearly 100,000 people are waiting for a kidney transplant in the U.S. Many will never get one but some doctors have found an innovative solution.Music…

Our prison population has been rapidly aging for years, and the additional care these elderly inmates require is expensive. But some prisons have created…

These are stories of the difficult and sometimes shocking things people do to work around the American healthcare system.

From the impact of the HPV vaccine on cervical cancer rates to a new 3-drug treatment for Hepatitis C, Sound Medicine's Jill Ditmire reports this week's…

"One consequence of the cases of health care workers becoming infected in Texas, after treating an infected man who had traveled from Africa, is that…