The Olympic medalist went back home to East St. Louis. Now, she wants the next generation to do the same.
A Silicon Valley start-up launched an online diabetes prevention program yesterday, of the sort that has data to support its efficacy and cost-effectiveness.
Reducing the demand for costly nursing home living can come down to a hot meal.
New super-thin mesh has the potential to be inserted into a woman's vagina to provide barely detectable contraception and HIV protection for several days.
A map of "real-time" U.S. births and deaths
In South Dakota, long-distance doctoring is bringing health care to rural communities.
It is time to commit to programs that will serve our troops with the same fidelity with which they have served us.
Innovations, outbreaks, and oddities from the year in health and medicine
Last week's mHealth summit in Washington, D.C., gave tech leaders an opportunity to evaluate the field and its future.
Education is not an industrial process; it is a human one.
He was a hero, an iconic survivor, and he let us down. It's difficult to accept, because he helped.
Emerging reasons to wonder if we could have done more
Incorporating nicotine into their nests keeps parasites out.
A researcher's struggle to get players and leagues to cooperate in a study of traumatic brain injury
From the creators of "How to Unhook a Bra With One Hand" -- which has been watched 55 million sad times
Where we stand on what President Obama has declared an achievable goal -- and a top U.S. global priority
Non-stop reminiscing about Decembers past may cut down your gas bill.
The way forward for U.S. health care is research -- not just for the benefit of patients, but as an engine for economic growth.
Unfounded fears echo throughout policy, health care, education -- pretty much everywhere.
45 U.S. states have made failing to disclose one's HIV status a criminal offense.