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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Transportation Barrier
Many low-income people in urban and suburban areas struggle to find reliable transportation. The result is missed appointments and poor illness management, even when care is readily available.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Antibiotic Resistance Is Everyone's Problem
How can doctors, drug companies, and governments prevent a future where people die of minor infections?
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters Why Is MERS So Contagious?
Amid an outbreak of the deadly virus in South Korea, virologists are piecing together an understanding of a new but familiar respiratory illness.
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Bill Gates's Quest to Determine Why Children Are Dying
An interview with Gates about why so many newborns die in developing countries, and what he thinks he can do about it
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Milles Studio / Shutterstock When Hospitals Move, Who Gets Left Behind?
A growing number of hospitals are relocating to wealthier towns, citing financial necessity, but many see it as a choice to abandon the residents of poorer areas.
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Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters What Good Is 'Raising Awareness?'
Just being educated about diseases isn't enough to make people healthier.
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Philippe Wojazer/Reuters The Problem With Satisfied Patients
A misguided attempt to improve healthcare has led some hospitals to focus on making people happy, rather than making them well.
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Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters Should Patients Be Able to Find Organ Donors on Facebook?
A recent case in Belgium, in which a man took to social media to ask for a kidney, is raising questions about who can ethically donate.
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Dimitry B./Flickr Genes Don't Cause Racial-Health Disparities, Society Does
Researchers are looking in the wrong place: White people live longer not because of their DNA but because of inequality.
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Michael Turek/Blue Zones The Finnish Town That Went on a Diet
In the province of North Karelia, an unorthodox doctor defied conventional public-health wisdom to successfully overhaul regional cuisine and improve heart health.
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Kzenon/Shutterstock What Do Religious Women Think of the Contraceptive Mandate?
Faith leaders have spoken out against the Affordable Care Act's mandate that employers cover free birth control in their employee health plans—but many of their female followers feel differently.
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Abbas Dulleh/AP Infectious Psychology
As the Ebola epidemic subsides, global leaders look to the next outbreak.
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rakka_pl/Flickr The Healthiest Typeface
A new study adds more support to the idea that the right font can help sway health behavior.
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Pablo Rogat/Sutterstock The Precarious Success of Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act has drastically cut the rate of uninsured Americans by a third–16 million people–according to numbers released Monday.
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Victor/Flickr How Incarceration Infects a Community
Disease-based models help researchers understand how prison-admission rates are linked to the health of a neighborhood.
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Robert Valencia/Flickr I Used to Be an Anti-Vaxer
I used to believe that vaccines played a role in my brother's autism—until becoming a mother changed my mind.
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Phoebe Baker/Flickr The Secrets in Sewage
What can a city's waste reveal about the health of its population?
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free photos/Flickr Has a Global Tobacco Treaty Made a Difference?
Ten years after the creation of the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, a look at how it's affected smoking rates worldwide
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Sean Lema/Shutterstock Cold, Dark, and Happy
Years of state rankings have begun to paint a picture of an idyllic healthiest place to live.
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Geek Calendar/Flickr Should Doctors Write About Patients?
The benefits—and ethical pitfalls—of telling true stories as a physician
