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Primary care doctors and medical students will now be able to gain accreditation as addiction medicine specialists. The American Board of Medical…

Asian Health Services, a community health center in Oakland’s buzzing Chinatown, sees about 6,000 dental patients a year. Hundreds of others are on a…

It’s always a struggle to resettle in a new country, but for Bhutanese refugees, the challenge has been especially difficult. Bhutan, a largely Buddhist…

More than 400 people died from drug overdoses in Allegheny County last year. According to the Health Department, many of them were due to opioids,…

People concerned about potential flu vaccine side effects may be less likely to get the shot after learning that their worries are more misplaced than they were to start with.

The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world: Sixty percent of the 700 to 900 deaths each year are preventable, including that of neonatal nurse Lauren Bloomstein.

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/082513_6.mp3The National Institutes of Health has agreed to allow the descendants of Henrietta Lacks some control…

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/042813_6.mp3Hospital-based infection prevention specialists try to stop the spread of infectious diseases through…

Indiana Public Broadcasting's talk show "All IN" discusses the growing concern around children's mental health.

Water is scarce in India, which is a good reason not to do the Ice Bucket Challenge. A journalist came up with another option — give a bucket of rice to a hungry person. Her version is going viral.