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Hospital admissions caused by bike injuries have more than doubled in the past 15 years across the country. One doctor thinks the "Lance Armstrong effect" could be a reason for the jump.

Steve Silberman talks about how Nazi extermination plans and a discredited scientific paper about childhood vaccines shaped our current understanding of autism.

There's ample evidence that children in foster care often get powerful psychiatric medications when other treatments would be safer and more effective. But those treatments can be hard to get.

Improper payments by Medicare and Medicaid are wasting billions of dollars a year, the White House budget director said. He called for urgent corrective action in a letter that is now public.

BOSTON – For years, Massachusetts has been out in front of other states, trying ideas to change the health system. It passed a state law extending health…

Federal funding for Planned Parenthood will clearly be a flash point when Congress returns this week from its summer break.But the fate of many other…

The personal details of approximately 10.5 million health insurance customers have been exposed by the latest cyber-attack on the health care…

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) announced plans Thursday to introduce new legislation intended to lower…

This story is part of the series "Shortage in Rich Land" on Missouri's Bootheel region. Click here to see all of the stories.It’s a cold afternoon in…

You may have noticed the periodic recalls at your local supermarket, warning of listeria, e. coli or salmonella in recent shipments of produce or frozen…