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Excited and hungry, three children chant as food is served (“We want potatoes! Potatoes!) and ask what else is for dinner (fish and green beans as it…

Physicians have been warning for years about a coming shortage of primary care doctors. But others say primary care teams that include other types of health workers might fill the gap better.

Evidence shows hospice care can extend life and save money, but only if patients and doctors dare ask for the help. One New Yorker said hospice gave her back life at peace, pain subdued.

In 2014, nearly 1,200 people in North Carolina died from accidental opioid drug overdoses.Every one of them could still be alive today, said Rick Brajer,…

Half of Americans say they've had a major stressful event in the past year, according to a poll by NPR, the Harvard School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Here's how it hurts.

Where there is a mirror and barber chair, Trey Cato sees a ministry.“We’ve prayed in my barbershop,” he says. “The kids are not going to church, but…

When President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency in late October, it triggered a regulatory change intended to make it easier…

“I water my horses out of this creek down here,” Jeff Ivers says, resting his hand on his horse’s nose.He looks out over his land: 43 acres, surrounded on…

When a new friend threatened to cancel her mastectomy, Ella Jones’ mothering instincts kicked in.“I went over to the bed, and I rubbed her and talked to…

A researcher who studies the long-term consequences of unwanted pregnancy on people’s lives expects abortion bans will cause the greatest hardship to people with the fewest resources.