Elevating stories about how technology and research saved patients’ lives can rebuild public trust in science.

If we really want to save children’s lives and help struggling mothers, we must invest our money and energy into food, health care, security, and dignity that they deserve.

Doodles of Great Senate Hearing

Most doctors tell athletes with concussions just to wait. But patients need a whole-person, hands-on approach to resolve symptoms.

Two patients, five miles apart, reveal the gap between measuring biological risk and changing it.

Studying how people adapt to change can help us navigate our current uncertain moment. It can also do something AI cannot: tether us to time and space.

AI should be aligned with human needs. But humanity should also align itself with AI’s needs.

AI companions may disproportionately benefit from users who are least emotionally resilient.

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Helping young people find better tech-life balance could reduce obesity, inactivity, and inflammation — conditions that are all associated with cancer.

Sometimes the most powerful climate technology is not invented in a laboratory. It is rediscovered in a farmer's field.

How does El Niño reshape the ocean and, ultimately, the people and communities that depend on the ocean?

The story of a Japanese fishing vessel exposed to radiation made the threat of nuclear contamination feel personal for Americans in 1954. Can we learn a lesson from it today?

The absence of disease shows the prevention has been achieved, not that prevention is no longer necessary.

A column about how the everyday language we use to talk about science reveals — or conceals — what we believe.

Rethinking measurement priorities requires centering the people who actually produce and use health data — health workers, facility teams, and district managers, not philanthropists or donor countries...

In Bolivia, many rural farmers resisted a reform that would seem to bring prosperity. Instead, Law 1720 would have made their land and livelihoods more precarious.

Systems can be good at locating someone at risk for a heart attack. But they fail the woman who says that she is ‘just off.’

In an ironic twist, highly processed products are increasingly used to satisfy consumers’ desire for real food. But açaí and moringa extracts are no substitute for access to fresh meals and the time t...

Economies that prioritize electricity abundance will win the race for economic growth.

All are in play — and none are facts foretold.

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I grew up in the kind of place where government cheese was baked onto rectangular pizzas, and every talent show included a Dolly. The singer still informs my work in global health: Even those who have...

Breaking down the historic Meta settlement of $17 billion which will result in significant reforms to improve the safety of minors using their platforms.

Extended transnational families form a core, essential part of the food system, making possible a multi-billion dollar agricultural industry. Whether family members are forced to move or forced to sta...

The most effective model involves physicians, therapists, counselors, and care coordinators collaborating toward shared goals for the same child.

The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

Not what does the data show, but how does the data get made?

Can it be political?

To make progress in artificial intelligence, biotech, and medicine, we need to understand the social forces that make talented thinkers flourish.

Hundreds of millions of people already use AI for psychological support. Accountability is not only an ethical imperative but a competitive one.

Taxing high-pollution imports could generate revenue, create a more even playing field for U.S. firms, and incentivize cleaner manufacturing globally.

The executive branch wants to take control of the scientific enterprise. To stay independent, scientists will need better ways to demonstrate their work’s connection to society’s needs.

Effective food reform demands institutional capacity, durable statutory authority, and a willingness to constrain industry behavior — not merely swapping one ingredient for another.

Instead of relying on a single act of Congress, U.S. states could implement an evidenced-based, step-by-step sequence that could get the country to single-payer health care coverage.

Women have stewarded food and water resources for generations. As climate change impacts our eating, policymakers should especially protect women and their ability to be creative and resourceful.

Incoming lawmakers have an opportunity to build an addiction response that is accountable, effective, and prepared for an evolving public health landscape.

My week with people trying to build a more rigorous framework for international cooperation when the stakes are high and interests diverge.

After thinking, praying, reading, researching, and talking about whether to use AI, here are the three questions I pose.

Deprescribing works only when people have somewhere else to go.

In well-designed play environments, safety is not achieved by eliminating risk but by designing for it.

Better human rights protections at sea could reduce forced labor, human trafficking, debt bondage, and violence.

Cold, rain, drought, and warming have both helped and harmed Americans' efforts at pivotal moments.