Yuki Noguchi

Lincoln Mondy grew up in a mixed race family in Texas, where his white mother's family used regular ...

This week, New York City pledged to pay down $2 billion worth of residents' medical debt. In doing s...

Kim Tyler calls herself air-traffic control for her family, and her kitchen is its hub. Her mother, ...

Survival rates for lung cancer are improving, especially among historically marginalized communities...

An obesity drug called Zepbound won approval for use in adults from the Food and Drug Administration...

Deeply entrenched conflicts are dividing the world – and many people's social circles. The violence ...

Lung cancer is the country's most lethal cancer, with over 127,000 people dying of the disease every...

Like many Americans, Laura Bray had no idea the generic-drug market was broken until four years ago,...

When federal health officials recommended the next round of COVID-19 boosters for anyone 6 months ol...

What makes a meal delicious? Often, the answer might be umami. The Japanese word means "delicious ta...

Within the past five years, Dr. Sameed Khatana says, many of his patients in Philadelphia have reali...

I was born and raised in the American Midwest, but love visiting my parents' homeland in Japan. Cent...

If you break your arm, you go to the doctor, your insurance (usually) pays. Why is it so much harder...

If you wanted to talk with your doctor before the pandemic, you generally had to schedule an in-pers...

Nancy Heredia-Villanueva recalls the day in the fall of 2021, shortly after her oldest daughter star...

Toni Dezomits is used to facing death. She served in the Gulf War and later as a police officer, bec...

I grew up in the 1980s and '90s with parents who strictly controlled my "screen time," which almost ...

Two mothers — Jen McLellan in Albuquerque, N.M., and Grace, of Bethesda, Md. — haven't met, but they...

When COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency more than three years ago, it signaled the begi...

David and Marcia Elder packed their bags anticipating a month-long stay at the Mayo Clinic in Jackso...

Maria Caprigno says her adolescence was especially brutal, having to navigate her middle school year...

Tong Yan grew up in a Chinese-American enclave of Los Angeles in a family that revered food, but tho...

Just a year ago, Chukurah Ali had fulfilled a dream of owning her own bakery — Coco's Desserts in St...

The average life expectancy for Americans shortened by over seven months last year, according to new...

The pandemic did something strange to our sense of time. For Ruth Ogden, lockdown spent confined to ...

Samuel Rose says he was raised by a devoted single mom who warned all her seven children to avoid dr...

Rachel and her husband adopted Marcus out of Guatemalan foster care as a 7-month-old infant and brou...

Caswell County, where William Crumpton works, runs along the northern edge of North Carolina and is ...

New Yorker Charlie Freyre's sinuses had been bothering him for weeks last winter, during a COVID-19 ...