By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

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Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Pennsylvania won't be able afford the cost of federal food assistance if Trump's tax and spending plan becomes reality, Shapiro said.

A leader of the CDC's reconstituted vaccine advisory committee said the panel would start a review of long-approved shots.

Alleging Israel has committed ‘war crimes’ suggests a recognizable event: that there is a war happening and there are some crimes in it. Gaza is different.

Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

‘It's one more example of health care that they're trying to rip away,’ Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, tells The Independent

The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – wh...

In only two years, ChatGPT and the surge of AI-generated cheating from college students it has created have unraveled the entire academic project.

Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

On Tuesday night, a Tufts University graduate student named Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by agents from the Department Of Homeland Security while walking down the sidewalk outside an off-campus apartme...

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The bird flu is about much more than egg prices, and it’s an open question whether industry or policy can slow the spread.

The threat of an H5N1 pandemic is here to stay.

The veteran, a VA mental health patient, was wearing a transgender flag, a witness said.

Trump’s order, signed Tuesday, is part of a push to reverse Biden administration policies meant to protect transgender people and their care.

Employees hired in the last year — including many in climate law programs — have been notified that "the agency has the right to immediately terminate

An unprecedented freeze on the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report sparks new concerns about political meddling in science.

An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills

New details show how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then chair of an anti-vaccine group and now Trump’s pick for health secretary, sought to exploit a deadly vaccine accident.