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Dateline NBC recently examined why families in poorer zip codes in places such as New York City are hit far harder by asthma than upper income children. A big part of the problem is public housing.

No one would blame a young couple for curling up on their couch and just forgetting about the rest of the world for a while after their daughter died from a birth injury. But they have quickly tried to make a difference and enact change.

Two thirds of America’s population growth between 1995 and 2050 stems from immigration, one recent study found. The health of immigrants increasingly will define the health of America.

MRSA outbreaks among sports teams might be more common than we're led to believe. To get a handle on both health care-associated infections and community-acquired infections, we need to know more about where they originate and what works to fight them.

The common thread of the bonus program that just ended was to make it easier for low-income families to get their children on public health insurance.

This week Men's Health, iHealthBeat and Entree Health are all looking for editors. Plus, the deadline is approaching for Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism from the Association of Health Care Journalists!

Navigating the challenges of caring for a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease need not be a solitary journey. It is impossible to surmount the hurdles without reaching out to others.

Not only does the move stand to negatively impact the drug company's bottom line, GSK has broken new ground before in disclosures and remains an outlier.

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The Los Angeles Times took an impressive deep dive into the problems plaguing California’s foster care system, detailing the extent to which perverse incentives and a lack of monitoring among private agencies overseeing foster homes has led to disturbing patterns of child abuse.