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Living With Sickle Cell Disease: The Struggle to Survive was a book I absolutely had to write. Prompting me to undertake such a daunting project was finally having had it with being treated as less than a person whenever I showed up at an emergency room. 

Why did University of California-Davis officials go after a professor who dared to criticize the university's support of prostate cancer screening?

A hospital's willingness to open up its MRSA case files means we know more about preventing deaths from these serious infections.

Featured this week is the 2012 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program which is built around creating a next-generation reporting tool for arts journalism in the form of a 15-member pop-up newsroom called Engine30.

Cartoon animals selling drugs, insurance premiums to be paid back, drinking during pregnancy, antibiotic-free meat and more from our Daily Briefing.

Much of the recent focus on patient safety can credited to the health journalists who pierced the veil of silence and raised public awareness of medical errors.

Hydeia Broadbent, diagnosed with HIV at age 3, is a high-profile member of a new generation of young adults living with HIV/AIDS.

What media really need to address in covering the looming Supreme Court decision on health reform is less about election-year politics and more about what it will mean for ordinary Americans.

As the world was engrossed in watching the Kony 2012 viral video, released by the invisible children depicting the atrocities of Joseph Kony in Northern Uganda, An Invisible disease called the Nodding disease was taking its toll on the people of Northern Uganda. Not many in the international media mentioned the nodding disease, even when it dep...

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