Psychiatrists who take time with their patients are not the norm. It's not because others don't care. Rather the system rewards efficiency, not empathy.
How labels obscure humanity in mental illness
People who spent 20 minutes under UVA-radiating lamps appeared to experience cardiovascular benefits.
There is a way to cultivate, not demonize, collaboration between physicians and pharma.
The "nerve agent" does not directly kill. Rather, within seconds, it turns our own nervous systems against us.
A psychotherapist contends that the DSM, psychiatry's "bible" that defines all mental illness, is not scientific but a product of unscrupulous politics and bureaucracy.
Archaeologists announced today the "first solid evidence" that some 17th-century American colonists consumed one another.
The American Academy of Pediatrics said today that it respects the decision of women to give birth at home -- on the following conditions.
With the "next-generation condom" initiative, Bill Gates is acknowledging that the practical reasons people don't use condoms warrant honest conversation.
The obesity rate is 27.5 percent higher in New York City neighborhoods where the greatest proportion of people "like" television on Facebook.
We learned this week that intestinal bacteria convert nutrients from egg yolks into a compound that correlates strongly with heart disease, stroke, and death.
Trauma centers and emergency departments across the U.S. have been closing at alarming rates. The people who stand to lose the most are those already put at a disadvantage by the health-care system.
41 percent of U.S. adults "feel stressed a lot of the day." Stats in some states are much worse than others.
Amid criticism of America's continued war on drugs, Dr. Kermit Gosnell -- who could have been arrested for murder years earlier if medical oversight agencies had been more vigilant -- was only taken down when he crossed the Drug Enforcement Administration.
As with soda, demanding that all mechanisms of harm be completely understood before regulations are put in place is frightening.
How strongly people's mental health and life satisfaction correlated with their proximities to parks and gardens
Why the Boston Marathon bombings brought the United States together
Today the Boy Scouts of America "called to end" its ban on gay members.
Sometimes financial crises can force lifestyle changes for the better.
Many titans of industry spend much of their lives asleep under their desks.