The shocking revelation this week about how the Nittany Lions treated a suicidal player is indicative of a broader epidemic in the sport, where team physicians routinely side with coaches over players’ medical needs.

You should be keeping an eye on the “bird flu”—and on the Republicans who want to slice and dice the CDC budget.

A new study links fine particulate matter pollution to the incurable disease. But American industry will fight any attempt at regulation.

The Christian right is paving the way for a world without abortion or IVF, but with lots of embryo adoptions.

Over 60 years since Silent Spring, the Environmental Protection Agency still can’t seem to bring itself to curtail products like Roundup or paraquat.

We know enough about microplastics to be worried. RFK Jr. should not be the only candidate with a plan to fight them.

The Republican senator from Alabama spent 2023 turning himself into one of the most hated men in Washington—even by members of his own party.

A national laxative shortage is the perfect metaphor for the United States these past four decades.

The higher the “wet bulb temperature” is, the harder it is for our sweat to cool us down.

One year after the Supreme Court killed the constitutional right to abortion, state preemption laws are on the rise.

Two new lawsuits over Medicare drug-price negotiation boil down to: We want the cushy deal George W. Bush gave us!

Why memoirs of sickness and elusive diagnosis increasingly read like detective stories

Municipalities have been banning gas hookups for years. There’s a reason the backlash only went national very recently.

More than 500,000 active-duty soldiers have been diagnosed with cancer over the past two decades.

Neither ill health nor old age has stopped past presidents from seeking reelection, but the most illuminating parallel to Biden’s expected reelection bid isn’t Reagan. It’s Eisenhower.

The disease is growing exponentially among elders.

Gun violence in America is so bad that victims are suffering from multiple mass shootings.

Our current system defines health as the ability to work. Those who can’t are abandoned and exploited.

Why paying more for eggs could save us from another pandemic

Conservatives are hell-bent on defending gas stoves. Why not other poisonous household products?