Those who are incarcerated are suing for their right to gender confirmation surgery—if deemed necessary. Meet the psychiatrist who almost always says it’s not.

A hockey player's life spirals out of control.

At 37, Brian Wallach was diagnosed with the fatal disease. So he tapped a lifetime of connections to give help and hope to fellow sufferers—while grappling with his own mortality.

Orthopedic surgery would have bankrupted us in the United States. So we went to Mexico instead.

When jail healthcare is outsourced to for-profit medical providers, inmates pay the price.

A healthcare nightmare.

When patients turn to crowdfunding for medical costs, whoever has the most heartrending story wins.

Inside the Rio Grande Valley’s amputation crisis.

A search for common ground.

"Look, people's lives are people's lives, and some of them can't cope or be as organized as some of us might like. But it's only in the area of sex that we get involved in the ethics of promoting risk-taking, the idea that we should withhold information or devices because we don't want people to need them. Would you make the same argument about cholesterol drugs? Saying, If we give people a drug that will reduce cholesterol, they won't be as likely to exercise and eat properly like they really should?"