White Coat, Black Artwith Dr. Brian Goldman

Advocates say more support is needed for opioid overdose survivors left with brain damage.

A growing number of people have moved away from eating meat after attending workshops in the Burin Peninsula run by two local doctors who champion a plant-based diet.

Lee talks about what started his path towards plant-based eating and what goes into building his restaurant's bestselling beet and lentil burger.

Meet three doctors who eat a low-carb, high-fat diet, and find out why they'd like to see it more commonly prescribed to patients who are facing metabolic disease, even though some critics call it a fad.

Denis Raymond has the same aggressive and incurable brain cancer that killed Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie, but so far he is defying the grim odds of survival.

Suicide is an occupational hazard for physicians and other health professionals with implications for the health-care system.

Dr. Gabrielle Horne spent 14 years fighting to restore her reputation after being bullied and harrassed by senior doctors. She won a landmark victory in court, but experts say most doctors shy away from court battles as the costs, personal and professional, are too high.

In his hybrid working world, Matthew Sias has found himself acting as paramedic and mortician on the same day with the same person.

Why a 92-year-old woman now sees her roomate, 23, as a daughter.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio issued a mandatory vaccination policy in parts of Brooklyn this week, after nearly 300 measles infections were confirmed last fall. New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr says enforcing such an order will prove challenging.

In a bonus podcast you can stream here, the New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil talks to Dr. Brian Goldman about the newly-declared public health emergency in New York City, prompted by the measles outbreak in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. And he sheds light on the resurgence of the disease around the world.

Christine Lumilan, a mother with cerebral palsy, and Dr. Anne Berndl are breaking down barriers — medical and physical — to motherhood for disabled women. But they’re also challenging a culture which has been slow to accept the idea that disabled women can be mothers.

White Coat, Black Art speaks with parents, educators and advocates who say fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, or FASD, gets less respect and fewer resources than almost any other developmental disability.

Karla Van Kessel's doctor failed to recognize she had symptoms of cervical cancer and misread her Pap smear results, causing a dangerous delay in her diagnosis. She says women need to demand better screening tests and keep tabs on their medical records to avoid the same fate.

Why a 92-year-old woman now sees her roomate, 23, as a daughter.