A reporter seeks answers on the use of residential treatment programs nationwide — and the rationale for sending kids away ...

Asian Americans are disproportionately affected by hepatitis B, especially by chronic infections. Years of community work ...

Violence prevention programs, particularly community-based interventions, can significantly reduce homicides and shootings in ...

Last year, I spoke with an Iowa mother who found her then-6-year-old son attempting to take his own life during a monthslong ...

Asian Americans, who make up 7% of the U.S. population, account for more than half of all chronic hepatitis B cases. Roughly ...

Dobbs, that people are doing everything within their power and expertise to make sure that people can still get care," said ...

I was about four hours away from home in a rural Nevada community in Elko County when a mother told me about her son, who died by suicide. Her son, a high school junior, walked into his parents’ room, ...

Lottie L. Joiner, a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer, wrote this story while participating in the National Health Journalism Fellowship, a program of the University of Southern California’s ...

I'm one of the founding journalists at the USC Center for Health Reporting, a new program created to help improve health reporting in communities across California. We work with newspapers and other ...

In 1976, Robert By Khang was lost in a city where no one spoke Hmong, where no one could tell him that he’d gotten on the wrong bus or how he could get home to his wife and baby. That city was ...

Three cohort studies in the United States are tracking the long-term consequences on the developing brain of pesticide exposure during pregnancy and the early years of life. The studies are finding ...