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Maybe it's time to give teenagers some credit: Recent data shows rates of teen pregnancy and abortion are at historic lows, and teens are drinking less…

This week we hear from Steven Brill, author of the bestseller America's Bitter Pill, on how he would fix the healthcare system. A doctor puzzles over how…

The retired cop was an easy patient, who took his medicine without complaint. After an operation, the man went into a mental tailspin that his doctor realized had been in the making for years.

Ebola is especially deadly for children and babies. About 80 percent of those infected have died. But one man knew instinctively that love and affection could make a difference.

Health officials in California still don't yet know exactly how this particular strain of the virus got to Disneyland.

Measles infected hundreds of children at a Philadelphia church whose members didn't believe in modern medicine. In a rare step, health officials moved to compel the families to vaccinate the kids.

NPR and ProPublica investigated the charity's response to Superstorm Sandy and other disasters as well as its finances.

Journalist Steven Brill has spent the last two years examining the question of why healthcare is so expensive in the United States, both in his series of…

Malaria parasites in Myanmar are learning how to fend off the incredibly effective drug called artemisinin. That could cause a lot of problems there — and beyond.

The outbreak of drug-thwarting bacteria that contributed to the deaths of two patients at a UCLA hospital isn't likely to spread further, doctors say. Still, drug resistance is trouble nationwide.