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Patty is a graduate of the University of Vermont and a multiple award-winning reporter for Maine Public Radio. Her specialty is health coverage: from policy stories to patient stories, physical health to mental health and anything in between. Patty joined Maine Public Radio in 2012 after producing stories as a freelancer for NPR programs such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She got hooked on radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and hasn’t looked back ever since.

Before joining Tradeoffs, Melanie spent eight years at the Wall Street Journal, where she covered the hospital industry, reporting on the business of running hospitals, health care quality and the impact of technology on the field.

Academic medicine is still a man’s world, according to two studies and an accompanying editorial published Tuesday in the journal JAMA.Despite growing…

Twice a day, Angela and Nate Turner of Greenwood, Indiana, take tiny strips that look like colored scotch tape, and put them under their tongues.“They…

Natalie Krebs is a reporter for Side Effects Public Media and a health reporter for Iowa Public Radio in Des Moines. She can be reached at nkrebs@iowapublicradio.org.

The first Hispanic president-elect of American Medical Women’s Association, Dr. Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, M.D., FACP, is a regular contributor on Sound Medicine. She is the Executive Director for the Indiana University National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health; the Chief Physician Executive at Eskenazi Health Outpatient Care Center Primary Care and at the Center of Excellence for Women’s Health. She is an associate professor of clinical medicine and pediatrics, and a faculty member in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Indiana University

Jon Hamilton is a correspondent for NPR's Science Desk. Currently he focuses on neuroscience and health risks.

July marked 30 years since President Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. And while the U.S. has come far since then, the nation…

When Karla Johnson moved into her Indianapolis house over two decades ago, she signed a disclosure form acknowledging its paint contained lead. She…

The "Sound Medicine" program for Nov. 16 includes Toxic stress during childhood can lead to emotional and behavioral problems as an adultPart Two: After…