Health & Safety

This school in Denver teaches its seventh-graders about the disease, the science behind it and the patience needed to deal with it.

Brandy Trabosh got to the point where she told her brother, Nikko, not to come for Thanksgiving so he wouldn't get high around her kids. The family is trying to help Nikko, 22, stay off heroin.

A fairy-tale romance between a dancer from Connecticut and a young Cuban studying at Columbia turned into a political thriller — and resulted in the unlikely birth of a new art form in Cuba.

How coinsurance hurts: If a drug costs $200, a patient may owe 20 percent of the cost, or $40, instead of a flat copayment of $20. The higher the cost of the drug, the bigger the coinsurance bite.

Doctors, hospitals and insurers are balking at a Covered California proposal to eject providers of care that have inordinately high costs and low quality from its networks.

A study looked at students who ate breakfast at school versus those who ate at home, at both places, or not at all. One of these groups had a higher risk of obesity, and it's not the one you'd think.

Snyder and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. During the hearing, there were multiple calls for their resignations.

Because really, Delhi's system does everything right that the nation's capital is doing wrong.

Children may not be able to put their emotions into words, says psychologist Vittoria Ardino. But give them crayons and they can reveal their feelings in pictures.