Junior Rodríguez is used to seeing death and violence up close because he's a doctor in a public hospital in Venezuela, one of the world's most dangerous countries.

In a deeply polarized country, suffering an extreme health crisis, one of the few uniting beliefs is the admiration across the political spectrum for a doctor recently beatified by the Vatican.

In September 2018, Maria Paula Toledo got her first monthly paycheck from the Venezuelan Ministry of Health for her work as a doctor at a rural clinic in Venezuela, outside the city of Maracaibo ...

With the austerity of a monk, a vocation to seek the good of others and a bright scientific mind, Jose Gregorio Hernández won the affection of those who called him “the doctor of the poor ...

Every doctor in Venezuela struggles with shortages of drugs and medical supplies amid the country's economic collapse. Here, six doctors tell their stories, accompanied by photos shot by ...

Cuban doctors dispatched to Venezuela as part of Cuba’s mission to help the South American nation ’s medical needs were pressed by the host government to tie crucial treatments and medication ...

When Venezuela President Hugo Chávez left his country to begin his cancer treatment in Cuba, he left a heath care system roiled by conflict in his wake. Since June 30, Venezuela’s public ...

The doctors say they were forced to withhold medicine from patients, only to dole it out shortly before the re-election of Nicolás Maduro.

In exchange for oil, Cuba sends Venezuela medical staff for the nation's free clinics. But some complain that the scheme neglects Venezuela's rundown public hospitals and underpaid doctors.

Venezuela will soon have its first saint, after ailing Pope Francis on Tuesday canonized a physician who died more than 100 years ago, revered for his selfless service during a previous pandemic ...

Learn key details about Stefi Cohen's life and career, including her arrest on domestic violence battery charges and her rise ...

A man revered by millions of Venezuelans as the “doctor of the poor” is one step away from sainthood.