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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 Alan Lyndon Whether it’s caused by a military conflict, a sexual assault or personal loss, PTSD emotionally ravages some people while others feel no ...

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 Alan Lyndon There’s a stigma attached to medical marijuana, particularly if a parent is giving it to their child.  But this type of marijuana ...

Children with consistent and early bedtimes — as well as regulated television and screen habits — have improved emotional health and are less likely to ...

Doctors are experience burnout at higher rates than ever before and, unfortunately, resolving their conflicts with suicide. “Four hundred U.S. physicians take their own lives ...

  By Julie Rovner As House Republicans try to find common cause on a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, they may be ...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. — After Yarly Raygoza attended the drug prevention program at the Boys & Girls Club here last year, she used what she learned ...

Many people drink diet soda to avoid the excessive calories found in the regular stuff.  Turns out, both regular and diet soda may be linked ...

By Michelle Andrews Limiting the number of foreign doctors who can get visas to practice in the United States could have a significant impact on ...