A new field of advocates are helping people navigate the insurance system, assisting with denials and delays. Three experts discuss how to fight your insurer and win.

Experts discuss why salt is such a health problem and what the federal government is doing to push food processors toward reducing salt content in our diets.

When a child is pulled out of the water and revived they may face life-threatening peril hours or days later as the body reacts.

Women are the fastest-growing prison population, but when they’re released, they face far more  barriers to successful reintegration into society than men, especially if they have children. Experts and a former inmate running a new program for moms in prison discuss barriers and ways to overcome them.

Diagnostic tests are often less certain in their results than people think, making patients sometimes doubt doctors' competence.

A noted investigative journalist explains the less well known side of military research.

Experts discuss why the risk of kidney stones in kids is rising, why doctors still sometimes miss the diagnosis, and how kidney stones are treated in children.

One expert explains which kinds of people would find the gluten-free diet appropriate and the pitfalls to avoid.

A noted university professor who became a quadriplegic in a bicycle accident discusses her constant pain and the way it changes life.

When doctors can take advantage of massive amounts of data on patient outcomes, lives will be saved. We look at one of the first efforts, an attempt to associate dangerous drug interactions.