Public Health

Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it.

Treating political violence as a contagion could help safeguard the future of American democracy.

More than a year after a train derailment and chemical fire in Ohio that made international news, residents contend with lingering sickness, uncertainty, and, for some, a desire to just move on.

The state endures high temperatures, but not usually so early in the summer, or for so long. Something is different.

An awareness that the air around you isn’t fit to breathe can be a uniquely alarming sensation. It is also likely to become more common.

It’s hard to imagine an area of federal policymaking more vexed than immigration, generally, and asylum, specifically.

The latest report on the origin of the virus behind the pandemic is still inconclusive, but there are lessons to be learned from it.

Can we fix the response to COVID-19 in a country that seems broken? Plus, Stephanie Hsu talks with Jia Tolentino about “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

Stephen Casper, a medical historian, argues that the danger of C.T.E. used to be widely acknowledged. How did we unlearn what we once knew?

Medical researchers find my genetic mutation endlessly fascinating. But being unique isn’t a plus when you’re a patient.

Why did the nation, which suppressed the virus for years, fail to prepare for the inevitable?

A ragtag coalition of public-health activists believe that America’s pandemic restrictions are too lax—and they say they have the science to prove it.

Farmers, bureaucrats, and water negotiators converged on Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas, to fight over the future of the drought-stricken Southwest.

Polio is one of the few diseases that can be eradicated—but faltering vaccination rates could undo years of hard-won global progress.

In hospitals, in schools, and on the streets, high temperatures have transformed routines and made daylight dangerous.

A friend’s experience revealed a shocking lack of awareness and preparation to counter the spread of the virus in the U.S.

Overturning Roe v. Wade put old laws—including one from the nineteenth century—back on the books, and opened the door for new ones with ambiguous language and glaring omissions.

President Biden’s COVID czar talks about his public-health philosophy, his Twitter threads, his unlikely path to the White House, and where we go from here.

In a leaked draft, the Justice points to “history and tradition” but ignores the context of both the past and the present.

Older, disabled, and chronically ill Americans who could benefit from novel therapeutics are scrambling to find them easily.