A decade ago, I knew nothing about organizing. But ordinary people are essential to fighting the rise of authoritarianism

We’ve launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and see the track records of the factories that made them.

Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.

A look back at the CDC's 2011 graphic novel on a "zombie pandemic." As the agency's systems are dismantled, the idea of a coordinated national response to a health emergency seems as fictional as zomb...

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I spent two decades at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working with some of the world’s leading experts on infectious…

CMS is rolling back protections that make CT imaging safer and reduce cancer rates

The good news is, any moment now we should start laughing.

Attacks on public health will continue until federal rhetoric changes

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.

The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is " Make America Healthy Again‚" but government cuts could make it harder to know whether that’s happening.

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 writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.

If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and tre...

A small office that produced data on alcohol-related deaths and harms, and worked on policies to reduce them, has been shuttered by the Trump

The EPA’s Safer Choice program helps protect people and the planet from toxic chemicals—so why is it under threat? Here’s what’s at stake.

Public health experts say the cuts could represent generational damage to health research and the elimination of infectious diseases.

The layoffs include 2,400 jobs at the CDC.

Five high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are leaving. The departures were announced Tuesday at a meeting of agency senior leaders.

Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.