A shift in a key vaccine advisory committee has raised alarms among public health experts. The ACIP routinely makes ...

Texas has more than 500 hospitals across the state, and nearly 150 of them are rural. Each day, they face challenges of ...

Here's my watch telling me to try harder.Fifteen years ago, then-contributor Peter Lipson wrote a short post on this blog that I've reflected on many times since. Titled Your Disease, Your Fault, ...

Armed with just brilliance and belief, a handful of Indian students landed in the US with barely eight dollars and ...

Koop understood the power of his persona. The instantly recognizable look — a patriarchal beard, the navy-type uniform, and ...

The idea that loneliness is an ‘epidemic’ is misleading and it draws us away from sustainable solutions, rather than toward ...

Most people experience periods of loneliness, isolation or solitude in their lives. But these are different things, and the ...

More American children and teens die from firearms than any other cause, but there are more deaths — and wider racial ...

Florida became the second state in the country to end its practice of adjusting fluoride levels in its water supply.

On Doctor’s Day, a top Mumbai surgeon lists harmful habits patients need to break—from ignoring rectal bleeding to ...

One in six people worldwide is affected byloneliness, which is linked to an estimated 100 deaths every hour - more than ...