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Dr. Jaime Lopez, who has delivered 10,000 babies, is in need of a kidney that will allow him to continue his own life-saving work in Los Angeles.

Long wait times for medical care is a trend seen in San Diego and across the country. NBC 7 breaks down what exactly is causing these long wait times.

Doctors may be missing patients who are trying to cheat on tests that check if they are taking medication for opioid addiction.

Half of Massachusetts doctors surveyed have already or intend to soon cut back their clinical hours, and one in four plan to leave medicine altogether in the coming years, according to new data released Thursday by a leading industry group. Fueling concerns about staffing shortages that have plagued the health care industry and many other facets of the economy, the…

Many patients may not completely understand what their doctors are trying to tell them because of jargon used in the medical profession.

Doctors are seeing an alarming number of RSV cases in children. Colton Bradford spoke with a doctor to find out how it effects children and when you should get your child to the hospital.

From thousands of miles away over telemedicine video chat, Northwell Health’s Dr. Andrew Salama has offered advice and support to doctors working in warzones in Ukraine. Salama has treated patients injured in the Gulf War, and used that experience to consult Ukrainian doctors through facial reconstruction surgeries and other treatments for wartime injuries. LX News storyteller Peter Hull reports.

A Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will not just affect women seeking to terminate pregnancies, but it will also affect training for medical students across the country. Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, a physician and lecturer at Harvard Medical School, joined LX News Now to discuss the implications of ending Roe v. Wade for the medical profession.

For years, Maria Sylvia thought the streak on her nail was just a mole. A biopsy revealed something different.

The first African American woman doctor to secure a medical patent did so in 1988 for laser cataract surgery. Learn more about the extraordinary life of Dr. Patricia Bath.

Dr. Jason Chertoff tries to focus on the positive and why he got into the medical profession: to help people. But at the Ohio ICU where he works, morale is rapidly depleting as the unit again fills with COVID-19 patients – most of whom are unvaccinated. Chertoff says he’s tried to convince people to get their shots – meanwhile, staffing...

In the wake of last week’s oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the pending Supreme Court case that will determine the future of abortion access in America, there’s a new spotlight on how women’s reproductive health is treated in this country. One physician went viral on Twitter over the weekend for questioning why sedation is the...