Across the country, many for-profit residential facilities in the so-called troubled teen industry that claim to treat severe ...

Parents and former employees say there is minimal treatment and barely any schooling, with only young, poorly trained staff to supervise the kids. Two mothers described it as something out of “Lord of ...

World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is in eastern Congo's Bunia, where a rare type of Ebola is spreading faster than the response.

An Associated Press investigation finds that private, for-profit residential treatment centers that care for adopted kids at exceptionally high rates are often funded by taxpayer dollars, but are ...

Kenya’s government is pushing ahead with plans to establish an Ebola quarantine and treatment facility at a military ...

We need to continue encouraging the adoption of teenagers who would otherwise end up in institutionalized or unstable foster care, but we need to penalize predatory actors in the space.

In Central Africa, authorities are still struggling to get their hands around an Ebola outbreak with more than 900 suspected cases. A Kenyan court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan ...

The Trump administration has implemented some of the United States’ most stringent travel restrictions for infectious disease ever.

The Trump administration has turned inward in response to the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda, with increasingly isolationist policies that are alarming and disappointing infectious disease experts ...

“We are in desperate need of doctors being more Lyme-literate,” Diana Cust tells PEOPLE ...

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited Bunia in eastern Congo as a rare Ebola outbreak continues to spread. He urged community trust, safe burial practices, and reconsideration of travel bans.

The cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 11 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released this week.