Despite overall decreases in U.S. cancer deaths, Black and American Indian and Alaska Native people continue to be more likely to die from the disease, a new report finds. Cancer death rates in the ...

The decision makes court cases more challenging for thousands of plaintiffs suffering from the consequences of pesticide ...

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Gipson is one of thousands of women across Texas living in a maternal healthcare “desert,” with limited access to care during ...

Since Sabine County Hospital closed its labor-and-delivery unit in 2000 and the county lost the last of its physicians who ...

Air pollution, groundwater contamination among health risks from orphan wells…exposure to common chemicals can be harmful ...

Nearly two decades had passed since the storm. For many, the memory of what had happened on Goat Island had largely vanished into the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, what residents remembered that year were ...

Juliana Salazar, 4, stands behind a plexiglass barrier inside her family’s home in Pearland, Texas. Her father built the wall to protect her from disease exposures that her severely compromised immune ...