Credit: Getty Images Narrative medicine seeks to apply the humanities — literature, art, storytelling — to clinical encounters as a means to provide more holistic care. Health care requires humanity.

Patients who received narrative-based palliative care also reported better quality of life, improved sleep quality, and greater acceptance of death compared with patients receiving routine care. These ...

Narrative development in bilingual children is a complex interplay between cognitive, linguistic, and cultural factors. As these children acquire and use two or more languages, their storytelling ...

Assessment of price variation in colorectal cancer screening procedures at US hospitals. Background: Black women are more likely to die from breast cancer than women of any other race/ethnicity.

Eating disorders are complicated mental illnesses that typically require a multidisciplinary team of professionals to treat. The most common therapeutic interventions for eating disorders are ...

Allyssa McCabe works for the Center for Autism Research & Education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She is related to an employee of The Conversation US. Glenn, a high-functioning ...