Lisa Hagen is a reporter at NPR covering the mainstreaming of extreme or unconventional beliefs. She's interested in how people form and maintain deeply held worldviews, and decide who to trust.

Doctors have begun the first global study of why some people with cancer beat the odds and survive so much longer than expected. Many cancer specialists have anecdotal stories of patients who have ...

New guidelines are in place for Alberta doctors who, for safety reasons, decide to reduce the number of patients on their roster. Acknowledging the province's health-care system is under strain ...

Increasing numbers of doctors are struggling at work, while the support available to them is at risk. Emma Wilkinson investigates When Anne Noble, a GP in Sheffield, contacted NHS Practitioner Health ...

Some of China’s senior doctors are raising concern over the quality of domestic generic medicines that have largely replaced western brand-name drugs at hospitals, amid a rare public backlash ...

A court in India has sentenced a man to life in prison for the rape and murder of a junior doctor, in a case that sparked nationwide outrage and protests. The judge rejected demands for the death ...

NEW DELHI — An Indian court on Saturday found a police volunteer guilty for the rape and murder of a trainee doctor, a crime that sparked countrywide protests and hospital strikes last year amid ...

A prominent Boston-area doctor accused in several lawsuits of ... in December 2022 and June 2023 at the Charles River Medical Associates in Framingham, Mass., the Middlesex County District ...

An Indian police volunteer was convicted on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city Kolkata, in the speedy trial of a crime that sparked national ...

Dear Abby gives advice to a mother who repeatedly gets called by doctors offices for her kids appointments -- even when her husband is listed as the primary contact. fizkes - stock.adobe.com DEAR ...

Dr. Ofri is a primary care doctor in New York. It was hardly two weeks after the election when a doctor in our clinic received a letter from one of her patients, an undocumented immigrant who ...