What her famous mother did as Texas governor, Cecile carried on by standing up a range of progressive and pro-choice organizations.

Add the Microsoft CEO to the long list of billionaires trying to land in Trump’s good graces.

With just days left in office, President Biden has said the Equal Rights Amendment is now the law of the land.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vax nonprofit turns out to be just another scam.

The privatized version of Medicare doesn’t just provide worse care than traditional Medicare—it also rips off American taxpayers with fraudulent claims. And Trump wants to double down on it.

The Covid pandemic certainly took a toll on health care professionals, but the root cause of their frustration and exhaustion is much deeper.

Four people on dairy farms have contracted the disease, but small farms exist in a regulatory no-man’s-land.

Lawrence Ingrassia lost his family members to cancer one by one. Why did it take so long for medicine to find the cause?

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