America and SOMOS Community Care will host a conversation on healthcare on the margins.

After 14 years at the helm of the Catholic Health Association, Sister Carol Keehan is ready to let others lead—but she still has strong opinions about the importance of Catholic hospitals and the state of U.S. health care.

Many stories of ordinary people responding to suffering in extraordinary fashion have not yet been captured in forms that will last.

Should filmmakers make the pain of addiction bearable to watch? In "Beautiful Boy" and "Ben is Back" they try.

The costs of medicine in the United States are addressed in different, though complementary, ways in two new books on broken U.S. health care.

In their written responses, several readers invoked the Hippocratic Oath, from which the phrase “first do no harm” is derived.