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By Michael Ollove, Stateline In nearly two years as a medical resident in Meridian, Mississippi, Dr. John Thames has treated car-wreck victims, people with chest pains ...

By Elana Gordon, WHYY For most of his life, Carl Goulden had near-perfect health. He and his wife, Wanda, say that changed 10 years ago. Carl ...

By Alieta Eck, MD Dr. Tom Price, our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been accused of belonging to a “conservative, fringe medical ...

By JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News In the seven months since California’s aid-in-dying law took effect, Dr. Lonny Shavelson has helped nearly two dozen terminally ill ...

By G. Richard Olds, M.D. The U.S. healthcare system is at a crossroads. The number of primary care physicians is expected to grow modestly over ...

(Editor’s Note: Back in 2010, we published an article on a program at Drexel University concentrating on physician re-entry.  Following is an editorial by a ...

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 ...

  By Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News Surgery can make anyone anxious, but it is especially hard for young children. Kids going into surgery may be ...

Steve Diaz, an emergency medicine doctor at Augusta’s MaineGeneral Health, says he knows what patients want when they come to him in pain. Drugs. And ...

Community Doctors — new documentary focusing on Cuba’s ELAM (Latin American School of Medicine) scholarship program — has just been released online. Students in the program ...