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Since it opened 50 years ago, the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic has been a refuge for everyone from flower children to famous rock stars to Vietnam War veterans returning home addicted to heroin.
Once an elite swimmer and a Yale grad, Siphiwe Baleka now coaches 3,000 fellow truckers on the best ways to work out, eat right and stay connected on the road. Drivers say his wellness plan works.
Intense, 鈥渉igh touch鈥 care that focuses on housing as well as health care brings down medical costs for the most expensive patients. But it鈥檚 been hard to replicate successful programs.
Newborn sleep is a valuable commodity.
The practice, which has been criticized by some gun groups, is not addressed in the health law and federal courts have so far upheld doctors鈥 rights.
From nutrition assistance programs to preventing food-borne illness, the Agriculture Department is keenly involved in health policy.
Effort asks salon owners to voluntarily improve air quality and use less toxic chemicals.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which eschews meat and pushes for nutrition to have a stronger influence in health policy, is suggesting alterations in how food aid to low income people is structured.
Ending federal support of the group that helps supply women鈥檚 reproductive health care could complicate health law overhaul efforts.
An analysis of claims data from 60 health insurers found a significant increase in the amount of treatments sought by young people for conditions traditionally associated with older people, such as high blood pressure and sleep apnea.
A Seattle program pioneers palliative care that reaches dying patients on streets and in shelters.
The scourge of the Middle Ages could still be pretty scary as a bioterrorism weapon, so scientists are trying to find a way to immunize people against it.
By checking up on the health and safety of meal recipients, volunteers for the nonprofit network can provide valuable information to medical providers and help ensure better care.
Mammograms find many slow-growing cancers that aren鈥檛 life-threatening and shouldn鈥檛 be treated, a Danish study said.
Because of the fears about devastating birth defects, carrying a child to term can be daunting for women in the commonwealth.
Charlie Oen was addicted to heroin as a teenager. At 25, he's now clean and a peer counselor in Lima, Ohio, where he tries to help people who started using drugs before he was born.
People in these facilities are now guaranteed more flexibility on food and roommate choices, as well as improved procedures for grievances and discharges.
Researchers are studying families from the U.S. and Mexico for clues to how Alzheimer鈥檚 develops in young patients, with the hope of finding treatments and even cures for the more common form of the disease.
Some churches and other faith-based organizations are offering clean syringes to IV drug users, while still others are voicing their support for comprehensive treatment, testing and education programs that also help stem transmission of diseases like HIV and hepatitis C.
One terminally ill man's hope to be disconnected from his respirator and donate his organs was almost thwarted, despite his best laid plans.
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