The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.

This past summer a young mother purchased raw milk for her family after seeing it promoted online. Tragically, she not only lost her 20-week pregnancy, her young son required hospitalization and surge...

The latest report from the Gates Foundation predicts an alarming trend for the health of children around the world.

Despite extraordinary scientific and medical resources, the US health-care system underperforms. In this Review we consider the damage wrought by decades of market-based policies that have stimulated ...

Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.

The website now says, “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”

The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.

President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have repeatedly raised the idea that autism could be linked to vaccines.

Decision over routine PSA testing is due at end of this month, though some feel the supporting data is unclear

A new report warns fossil fuel pollution harms public health especially in Black & Brown communities. Cleaner energy is a priority

World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation

An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.

The Coalition claims net zero by 2050 will cost too much – but unchecked warming or even a delayed transition would be worse for the economy

Bitcoin mining’s rising energy demand in the U.S. drives air pollution and other health risks, with little federal oversight or regulation.

Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut malaria infections in little ones.

Researchers worry that Medicaid home care eligibility decisions are often made without public scrutiny and based less on health than on cost.

Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge and trigger a new outbreak years later. How do they survive? And how can they be kayoed?

The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, which said the mosquitoes likely arrived by freight.

Kidneys that were deemed unsuitable for patients at Parkland hospital were allegedly given to others at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Americans able to buy deadly ‘gangster weapons’ again as lobbying forces key concession from Trump officials

Democratic-led states secured a legal victory to keep the personal data of food recipients out of the federal government's reach. But NPR's reporting shows that millions of records on Americans have already been shared.

True generosity flows quietly to communities that already know what they need, building capacity not dependency.

Using AI, UChicago Medicine is implementing a system that will route those routine moments to AI agents in the first line of response, keeping their human counterparts where more handholding is needed...

Health without borders: Building a global workforce for the future

Evidence of the intentional targeting of civilians in el-Fasher amounts to war crimes, researchers say.

Older adults face too many Medicare plan options, and it’s overwhelming them.

Health experts worry the policy change could lower vaccination rates and lead to a rise in preventable diseases — like polio, which most U.S. doctors have little experience spotting or treating.

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for EMTCT of HIV and syphilis. This makes the Maldives the first country in the world to achieve ‘triple elimination’.

The world's largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya viruses from reproducing has opened in Curitiba, Brazil.

More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

Now RFK Jr. is claiming vaccines don’t actually save lives. Here’s the math to show what he gets wrong.

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

Rising temperatures are feeding America's sweet tooth — and creating a new public health challenge in the process.

Largest total population health burden is from O&G end-use, but greatest relative disparities are linked to downstream activities.

Vaccination requirements kept our communities safe. Do not listen to anti-vaccine rhetoric. Do not gamble with your child’s health.

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

Most Americans with health insurance should not have to pay out of pocket for Covid-19 vaccines, even after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added an extra hurdle to getting the shot....

Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.