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When the FDA says that a drug is approved to treat nearly 20 different diseases, you can assume the agency is right and that a true wonder drug is working miracles in the marketplace or examine the evidence.

The last 15 years of research on how adverse childhood experiences cause adult onset of chronic disease, mental illness, violence and being a victim of violence is unequivocal. To understand what happened to Adam Lanza, we have to ask difficult questions.

California’s population of children is shrinking, and that means some big changes ahead for the Golden State. What's happening in your state?

WomensHealthMag.com is on the look out for an associate editor in New York, NY.

A compelling patient or researcher makes a story engaging; concrete statistics make a story valid. Data, however, aren’t always clear-cut, and experts disagree on interpreting and applying it. Statistics on gun violence and how to reduce it fall prey to the same dichotomy.

The number of school-based health centers has been growing in California for more than a decade, and the Affordable Care Act has boosted their funding. Some students served by these clinics also enthusiastically support them.

Sophia, 44, works up to 40 hours per week at a Mexican restaurant in Gurnee, Ill., making $10 an hour. With every paycheck, she said, $136 goes to payroll taxes, $62 of which goes to Social Security and Medicare. But as an undocumented immigrant, she will never receive those entitlements.

When an insurance company decides to deny coverage for a particular drug, it is easy for the pharmaceutical company to suddenly become David fighting Goliath.

If you cover health and aren’t writing about the impact the aging population has on a nation’s fiscal, as well as physical, well-being, you could be missing some good stories.

Reporters naturally want to focus on newly published research or a new announcement at a conference, but by focusing on one idea, it may present a drug or device as unique when in fact it is just a minor tweak on an old approach or no advancement at all.