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These are stories of the difficult and sometimes shocking things people do to work around the American healthcare system.

The first season of the podcast “Sick,” from Side Effects Public Media, dives into the...

People with rare metabolic disorders need medical foods to keep from going hungry, but costs...

Nearly 100,000 people are waiting for a kidney transplant in the U.S. Many will never get one...

Our prison population has been rapidly aging for years, and the additional care these elderly...

Buprenorphine is an FDA-approved medication used to treat opioid addiction, but it can be hard...

Children with severe mental illnesses encounter many barriers to treatment. But some parents...

On this episode: the lengths to which some diabetics go to survive, and why insulin is so expensive....