Health

The big idea During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than a third of Massachusetts households with a child under 5 didn’t have enough diapers to change their…

The pandemic is, first and foremost, a public health emergency, having claimed over 4 million lives worldwide. But COVID-19 also has a plethora of secondary impacts, with short- and long-term…

Startups focusing on women’s health are underfunded. That’s the premise behind SteelSky Ventures, a women-run venture firm that recently announced an inaugural $72 million fund for women’s health, backed by a list of…

The pandemic continues to expose the existing inequalities, inefficiencies, and siloed nature of the country’s child care, education, and workforce systems. Frontline workers lacked a way to identify child care…

The eradication of wild poliovirus is within sight — but only if the world remains committed and financially invested, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced on Tuesday at a…

On any given day, millions of Americans curl up to watch their favorite crime shows. Whether it is “FBI” on CBS, “Dexter” on Showtime, “Mindhunter” on Netflix, “Killing Eve” on…

A majority of Americans support mask mandates on planes and public transit, a new survey finds. Fifty-six percent of Americans favor requiring the public wearing masks on planes, trains, buses,…

Anthony Leiserowitz is the director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and a senior research scientist at Yale School of the Environment. An expert on public climate change and…

More than three-quarters of four-year undergraduate students who considered stopping out in the past six months said it was due to emotional stress, according to a new survey from Gallup and the…

In ways large and small, the way we work continues to change as we carry into the rest of 2022 and emerge from two years of seismic change. A true…

Firearms have surpassed motor vehicles as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States, according to a new analysis of federal data. The study in…

More than 58,000 fires scorched the United States last year, and 2021 is on track to be even drier. What many people don’t realize is that these wildfires can do…