Health

How Dr. Kellogg's world-renowned health spa made him a wellness titan

By Dr. Howard Markel

Just as his Michigan peers Henry Ford and Thomas Edison ruled over their vast empires of automobiles and electricity, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was the industrial king of wellness, giving the nation a thorough cleansing from the grime and sickness…

A summer camp where transgender children can feel safe

By KQED Future of You

After her daughter was bullied, one mom decided to start a camp dedicated to welcoming gender nonconforming kids.

Why are more American women dying after childbirth?

By PBS News Hour

Doctors and nurses have worked hard to reduce the U.S. infant mortality rate, and yet there’s been a rise in maternal mortality in recent decades, a trend that is less understood. Judy Woodruff sits down with Renee Montagne of NPR…

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Column: The real health care fight is coming, and it's about seniors' access

By Philip Moeller

Older citizens and their families need to be vigilant about efforts to raise the price of their health care, restrict their access to care or deny it to them altogether. Here are three such efforts to be aware of.

This chewing gum detects dental disease

By Roni Dengler

European scientists develop a chewing gum for spotting oral infections with peri-implant disease.

Individual health policies will have higher premiums if Trump halts 'Obamacare' subsidies, report says

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office also estimated that cutting off the payments would add $194 billion to federal deficits over a decade.

Amazon recalls potentially hazardous solar eclipse glasses

By Nsikan Akpan

Amazon issued a recall for some eclipse glasses sold on its internet marketplace, but did not publicly list the offending vendors or brands.

Bullying and suicide: What's the connection?

By Melissa Holt, The Conversation

All 50 states have some kind of anti-bullying law, and schools are increasingly being called upon to implement bullying prevention programs.

How a heroin addict tried to kick her habit in an opioid 'treatment desert'

By Brian Rinker, Kaiser Health News

When Heather Menzel arrived at the Bakersfield, California, bus station one day in February 2014, she hoped that the worst of her withdrawal was over and that a new life without heroin awaited.

WATCH: Trump says he'll make opioid crisis a 'national emergency'

By Associated Press

He tells reporters the drug crisis afflicting the nation is a "serious problem the likes of which we have never had" and says he's drawing up documents "to so attest."…