There are a few lessons that can be learned about communication in medicine and news from the recently retracted vaccine and autism paper.

We need more than just a report, we need immediate help now to address an urgent and growing health crisis along the Gulf Coast.

Although Jared Loughner feeds all kinds of false stereotypes about the mentally ill, I hope that this tragedy will spark a necessary debate for those of us who need access to mental health care and are not criminals.

The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald's and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, ...

Cholera and the bigger problem are cousins. Both are forms of diarrhea. But the more common forms of diarrhea are far more widespread and far more deadly.

In Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, for instance, 2008 birth rates were less than 25 per 1,000 teens aged 15 to 19, CDC found. I...

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The Virginia federal judge who ruled against a key component of health care reform on Monday has tie...

For the past eight years, Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released the Ready or Not? report to ascertain how wel...

We all generally take for granted that the food we eat is safe - or at least won't hurt us. But, you may be surprised to learn that around 76 million ...

Research is medicine's field of dreams from which we harvest new findings about the causes, treatment and prevention of disease.

Our hospitals cannot change their size or priorities overnight and if they get more cash starved they will have an even more difficult time investing in reforms.

Public health progress is forestalled by a monumental fiction: there is no "public." There's just you, and me, and everyone else.