Health

Advocacy to consider climate change as a human rights issue is incomplete unless interlinked with disability rights and mental health.

The program’s expenses are rising rapidly as baby boomers retire and health care costs grow.

Avian influenza viruses have evolved to infect birds, but the current H5N1 outbreak is also infecting a wide range of mammals. This suggests that it could mutate into forms that threaten humans.

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Interviews with over 90 patients and caregivers in the US and Australia highlight how COVID-19 disrupted cancer care in 2020 and 2021.

Health care providers rarely ask patients if they have access to firearms, researchers report. Here’s why they should.

An overreliance on medication as the first-line treatment for depression can lead some people to be labeled with treatment-resistant depression when there are other viable alternatives for relief.

Disturbed sleep can worsen depressive symptoms of health care workers whose jobs come with high levels of emotional labor and work-family conflict.

The original version of this essay was published by the TRiiBE. In my 16 years teaching in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I have lost more students than …

Experts caution against focusing too closely on the specific dropout rates themselves, which can lag years behind more reliable measures and are difficult to interpret.

The drugmaker’s move responded to the growing competition that has shaken up the insulin market in recent years.