An Oakland County man with disabilities said he just needs to get to his doctor’s appointments, but medical transportation is failing him.

From awkward misunderstandings to unintentionally funny moments, one doctor reveals the surprising things patients say — and what they really mean.

Children born with a cleft lip and palate could face lifelong complications under plans to scrap specialist training, doctors have warned.

The Government’s big ideas to rescue the National Health Service have so far failed to deliver. Adding billions to its budget has only made a marginal difference. Inflation-busting pay rises for ...

Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest non-profit health group, has veered from its charitable mission and is now scarcely ...

This author says she deeply loves her children, but is surprised by how disorienting and identity-shifting motherhood feels sometimes.

What is it that doctors actually do? The answer is not obvious, and I say that as a physician who has spent the past 30 years in hospitals. But the question matters. Which tasks can be done better or ...

George Eliot saw literature as uniquely capable of extending our sympathies, but her work engaged deeply with scientific ...

You don’t have the cancer look.” After my out-of-the-blue diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer, I got stupefying comments of this ...

I sat in the county welfare office in rural northeastern Pennsylvania, waiting to apply for medical assistance for my 1-year-old daughter. As a mother, I was devastated by the words “developmentally ...

South Africa introduced a new amendment to the parental leave policy in October 2025. The aim was to provide equitable rights for all parents. Noreth Muller-Kluits, a disability researcher and social ...