Five years ago tonight, Georgia Representative John Lewis passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 80.

Many people don’t know very much about their older relatives. But if we don’t ask, we risk never knowing our own history.

Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

Delegates to a United Nations meeting on neurotechnology ethics have devised the first set of global guidelines on maintaining users’ privacy.

Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science.”

“I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.

From civil rights to corporate boardrooms, efforts to expand inclusion have long shaped American life. What does research show about the returns – and limits – of today’s DEI programs?

I live in D.C., and I’ve always cherished my friends and neighbors who signed on for public service. Now they’re being chased out of town.

A lovely paradox of doing good in the world is that it does you good too.

The initiative is designed to transform travel into an immersive, educational journey.

It’s the second time a federal judge has sided with states in their legal battle to stop the Trump administration from slashing funds for public health initiatives.

If you thought Elon Musk was really trying to cut costs, you weren’t in on the joke.

Basic research that doesn’t have a specific industrial or experimental application still adds value outside the lab by engaging people with exciting research.

"This is a matter of life and death for millions of people," said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin.

While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

A global study seeks insights into what helps people feel happy, healthy and satisfied – and what holds them back.

A global study seeks insights into what helps people feel happy, healthy and satisfied – and what holds them back.

Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks reference research papers more often than their right-wing counterparts.

The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr, the Trump-appointed interim ...

The Justice Department has sued three of the largest Medicare Advantage insurers and three dominant insurance brokerages, alleging a kickbacks scheme.

Trump order targeting accreditation could shake up the small club of groups that set standards for medical schools and residency programs.

Friends,

In the face of cruelty and injustice, only empathy will carry us forward.

A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.

The NIH has scaled back its awards of new grants by at least $2.3 billion since the beginning of the year, a STAT analysis shows.

What the 2025 World Happiness Report Really Tells Us About Living Well

A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.

“Public health isn’t the sum of individual choices. It’s our collective agreement to protect the most vulnerable among us,” writes MeiLan Han.

PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), a landmark US foreign health policy, is recognised for saving 26 million lives from HIV. PEPFAR investments have also had life-saving impacts for c...

Background: Medicare Advantage (MA) plans report diagnoses more intensely than providers in the traditional Medicare (TM) program, and there is wide variation in coding intensity across MA plans. Obje...