Illness

Canada is the latest country to legalize physician-assisted suicide. In the United States, the subject is still fraught.

Mindi has never harmed her daughter and is capably raising a son, but authorities took her daughter under a concept sometimes called “predictive neglect.”

Exploring the struggle between love and disgust when caring for sick relatives. An extra to Bryn Nelson's feature-length look at the next big thing in health care.

Do vampires exist? No, they do not. But that hasn't stopped a handful of researchers from clinging to the myth of "clinical vampirism."

After painful life experiences we're more likely to appreciate life's little delights.

A study by Medicare’s inspector general of skilled nursing facilities says nearly 22,000 patients were injured and more than 1,500 died in a single month—a higher rate of medical errors than hospitals.

Psychiatry is under attack for not being scientific enough, but the real problem is its blindness to culture. When it comes to mental illness, we wear the disorders that come off the rack.

A new study finds that religious people with community support pursue more aggressive end-of-life treatment to delay death despite seeing no improvement in quality of life.

The curious case of NAET.