Health

Donna Hufnagle, a social worker with Virginia Supportive Housing (VSH), is on a mission to provide a safety net for a dozen people whose lives, through some combination of housing…

Women who gave birth during the COVID pandemic filled significantly more opioid prescriptions, and at higher strength, for postpartum pain.

When U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman visited his childhood home in Harlem’s East River Houses last winter, he was struck by a piece of graffiti at the entrance. The tag read, simply, “Help.”…

Mental health is an essential intervention to address violence and trauma at the individual, interpersonal, and systemic levels.

Detention facilities run by tribal nations or the Bureau of Indian Affairs are often left out of research, making the tribal prisoner population one of the most vulnerable in the country.

Fires in Canada have sent smoke across several US states, leaving cities like Denver with some of the worst air quality in the world – even far from the actual flames.

Cities with high-usage public transportation systems displayed higher per capita COVID incidence at the beginning of the pandemic, a new study shows. The findings held true when researchers accounted for…

In the weeks since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, an abortion desert has ballooned in the US South, where bans are hitting Black women hardest. Across the country Black patients…

Though many Americans believe that parasitic infections exist in poorer countries, research shows that the problem exists in the US and has a higher impact in communities of color.

As Benin announces its elimination of trachoma, Sightsavers CEO Dr. Caroline Harper talks about the incredible work the organization has accomplished over the past 70 years.

After half a century, Americans’ constitutional right to get an abortion has been overturned by the Supreme Court. The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – handed down…

Cases of children with profound autism are on the rise. Poor, female, and non-white kids are the most likely to be diagnosed, a study finds.