Category: NPR

Samuel Shem’s 1978 novel, The House of God, was a sardonic look at U.S. medicine through a young doctor’s eyes. Shem’s new fiction checks in with the same crew in the age of medicine by smartphone.

Childhood vaccines are often subsidized in the poorest countries. But not for those moving up the wealth ladder.

In Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis, a Rikers Island doctor says drug treatment in U.S. jails and prisons is often shaped by societal prejudice, not science.

NPR’s Michel Martin talks with Sophia Jones, senior editor for The Fuller Project, about the controversy surrounding virginity testing.

The annual enrollment period for health plans under the Affordable Care Act is underway and Florida is expected to lead the nation in signups. Despite legal challenges to the law, it remains popular.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore, now has a master’s program dedicated to the science and therapeutics of medical weed because of a growing number of students looking for expertise in the field.

Service dogs are a common sight at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, near Washington, D.C. But this special canine trains would-be healers how to pick the right dog for a wounded veteran.

The South Bend, Ind., mayor explains his health care overhaul plan — “Medicare for all,” as well as private insurance — and differentiates it from other Democratic presidential candidates’ plans.

The federal government is suing drugmaker Gilead for alleged patent infringement. The suit charges the company violated patents on “PrEP” drugs that are used to prevent HIV infection.

A federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration’s “conscience rights” rule for health care workers.