National Jewish Medical and Research Center on Thursday rebranded itself as National Jewish Health to signal the hospital's new focus on preventive and personalized medicine.

Norma Rabbitskin calls herself a lifelong student of traditional health. She hails from a First Nations family with a traditional health background, but also works as senior health nurse at a health centre and as a traditional nurse at Healing Lodge i

The Los Angeles Free Clinic held a special unveiling ceremony on April 21, 2008 at its Beverly Health Center in Los Angeles, CA in honor of its name change to The Saban Free Clinic. The ceremony celebrated its largest donation in history, a $10 million en

Social service agencies in Orange County, Calif., are working to develop health care programs that are more tailored to the culture, lifestyles and beliefs of the county's large Vietnamese population, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The nascent 21st century has seen poverty across the world. It has also witnessed the re-emergence of some diseases (e.g. tuberculosis) and the difficulty to find permanent solutions to health care challenges like malaria, river blindness and HIV/AIDS.