Chelsea Conaboy

Online sale of abortion pills mean women don't necessarily need access to a clinic to end an early pregnancy. But they do need to know where to start.

Harnessing willpower. Focusing on poor neighborhoods. Launching Obamacare. And still the racial and ethnic disparities in health care persist.

Adria Horn was breastfeeding her infant daughter at Togus VA Medical Center several years ago when someone approached to ask whether she was waiting for a patient. The implication was clear: Horn, a West Point graduate who deployed five times in 10 years, didn’t fit the image of a veteran.

Arbour Health System, which operates seven inpatient psychiatric facilities and a chain of mental health clinics in Massachusetts, has been repeatedly cited for violating patient-care standards before and since the three deaths, including citations for staffing too few nurses or relying too much on lesser-trained or temporary workers.

Medical professionals can vaccinate children against pathogens like polio or pertussis, but they have few tools to prevent the chronic illnesses that wreak havoc with so many adult lives and that cost the health care system so much to treat. What would it look like if we could somehow protect small children against those illnesses the way we vaccinate for tetanus or chicken pox?

Guns or glitter? Ties or tutus? A specialist asks whether gender reveal parties, though well-meaning, might be seen as a symptom of society’s overemphasis on gender.

Parents often are left to figure out for themselves what to buy — and where.

Bernard Lown believes less medical treatment can sometimes be more. Convincing you and your doctor has become a mission for the 91-year-old cardiologist.

Inducing labor, it was thought, increases a woman’s chances of requiring a Cesarean section, major surgery that could result in complications for mother and baby, and a longer recovery time. Now, a major study suggests that’s not true.

There may be real differences in how men and women respond to infection.

Should I eat fish? What kind and how much? What about coffee? Or sushi? What if I forget to take my prenatal vitamin? Will I hurt my baby if I sleep on my back? If I go swimming? If I have sex? If I fly?

Muji Karim lost his legs in a fiery crash. Now he finds his way by showing others that there is life after injury.

In rural America, social isolation isn't just a private woe. It's increasingly seen as a public health crisis, with new ideas for tackling it.

A program at Newton’s Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology looks to train military men and women to become therapists who can help other vets.