West Africa is grappling with one of the world’s most fearsome and elusive adversaries: the Ebola virus.
As of Monday, the World Health Organization had tallied more tha...
If you think children from low-income homes don’t aspire to attend college, think again. They do, but they often lack the academic background and mentors to keep them on...
The medical malpractice process was designed to allow fair and just compensation when a patient is harmed through negligent health care; it is an important part of our h...
There's a new breakthrough hepatitis C drug treatment that cures — yes, cures — almost everyone who takes it. Unlike previous, far less effective treatments, patients su...
WASHINGTON — You could hear the tension in his voice. His 20-something daughter was living at home. She had a graduate degree from a good university that, in times past,...
For the past 50 years, the government’s annual poverty rate has hardly changed at all. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 15 percent of Americans still live in poverty...
They are running to America, these thousands of children from Central America, not to sell drugs or steal or any of the other things some in the United States assume, wr...
The Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster should have been a wake-up call for Vladimir Putin. It wasn’t.
Instead of decreasing aid for pro-Russian separatists who almost ...
America’s effort to use our prisons to stem the illegal drug problem has largely failed.
Incarceration of drug offenders has seen prison and jail populations skyrocket, ...
WASHINGTON — The boys and girls of Congress are returning from summer camp — er, Capitol Hill — to their real homes where they will 1) raise money and plead to be return...
