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Efforts to slow obesity by taxing sodas hit the wrong target, argue three economists who propose a better-aimed tax on sugar and syrup that even they admit still sidesteps the real problem.

The placebo effect’s ability to influence human healing and human behavior is well documented, but we must be careful to make sure this fakery does no harm.

The upward spiral in U.S. health insurance costs is especially acute for employers that offer the benefit and employees shouldering more of their own costs.

A better reading of American poverty by the Census Bureau shows more are poor than thought, but also that aid programs and tax credits can make a difference.

Researchers across California are working to bring medical microscopes to our cellphones — and vastly improve field medicine.

Researchers advance the idea that ecstasy and other controversial drugs could help treat traumatized combat vets.

Once derided as the wrong path forward in fighting this mosquito-borne killer, a new malaria vaccine offers decent results and renewed hope.

Part training and part treatment, a new kind of sports therapy — Foundation Roots — revamps how active people look at the body’s strength core.

The former U.S. president asks for $93 million to eradicate a neglected disease that lingers in the new Republic of South Sudan.

In the new book “Out of Practice,” a primary care physician tells why he quit his practice and why the care of 78 million aging baby boomers can’t be left to specialists.