Department: Feature Article

If you can afford it, the private health system is top notch. If you can't, it's a completely different story. We cover the quality and concerns of healthcare in South Africa.

Meet Dr. Alfred Martin's Mighty MED and the Health Avengers!

Two "enemy" psychiatrists choose to work together to help stop the Israel-Palestine conflict.

From the Ancient Greeks to modern-day China to 21st-century North America, mental illness is present eveywhere. But the experience of the afflicted is different in each of these cultures.

Witnessing unnecessary pain and death and not being able to help is overwhelming for every healthcare worker. Bonnie Jarvis-Lowe, a nurse, recalls one of those times, when all she could do was ask "Why?"

The State Department employs NPs and other healthcare professionals around the world. Learn what they do.

The lives and separations of conjoined twins should be anything but entertaining. In the past, they were put in freak shows, and, today, they still garner sensational front-page stories.

Not one to rest on his laurels, in his spare time family practitioner Dr. J makes CDs!

Men have used birth control since ancient times.

Mentally ill, but with the eye of an artist.

Fostering self-care at a nurse-run clinic in north Philadelphia.

Personal experience made nurse Patricia Petersen a dedicated volunteer with Look Good Feel Better.

According to pediatrician Meg Meeker, teen sex is never OK. In fact, it's downright dangerous.

Learn about the free healthcare offered to the 99% of the British population that is registered with the NHS.

Tempted to try acupuncture?

Sybil Fisher, an occupational therapist, battled pain and rough waves all the way from England to France during the swim of a lifetime.

Psychiatrist Joel Walker's photography is inspired by his patients. And he has found that this medium may help inspire them during their treatment sessions.

Maybe more people would enter nursing if they could experience a Chiffon Nurse, as did one frightened 6-year-old, 50 years ago.