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Doulas provide emotional support for a woman through pregnancy and childbirth. A study finds that women with doulas are less likely to have cesarean or preterm births.

On a recent hot day in Indianapolis, Keith Smitherman made a stop at an apartment complex in one of that city's most violent neighborhoods, near 38th…

Some analysts who have looked at health insurers’ proposed premiums for next year predict major increases for policies sold on state and federal health…

Beginning next year, the federal government will conduct a five-year, 40-state experiment to determine whether there is a better way to help elderly…

Meg Hartz spent four years trying to secure comprehensive mental health care for her son, and she believes he could have avoided in-patient treatment if she would not have faced so many delays and roadblocks.

Health care providers often rely on digital tools to inform treatment decisions. A growing number of hospitals are moving away from factoring race into kidney disease calculations, after recognizing Black patients could be at a disadvantage.

The ideas being proposed could amount to more than $2 trillion of cuts to the country’s public health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans over the next decade — and could potentially push millions of people off the program.

A sip of soda will become more expensive next year in Philadelphia, which recently became the second city in the United States to pass a tax on sugary…

Studies with wooden blocks show "that children who play with blocks learn language better and have better cognition."

“We talk about breast cancer and other forms of cancer often here on Sound Medicine. And we can sometimes get into the weeds in discussing different genes…