Robert F. Kennedy Jr has been confirmed as the US health secretary. Here’s why this is bad news for America and the world.

A virus originally found in animals, mpox – which causes the disease of the same name – is now circulating in humans. Since ...

Evidence indicates many wealthier people have been able to travel to terminate pregnancies, contributing to increases in abortions despite bans. However, people who are poor, nonwhite and live in ...

Was it simply a fluke that he kept treating strikingly young patients? Or was his practice one tiny data point in a larger trend? He found his answer after sifting through national health data: ...

Four in five cars sold in the United States last year were either SUVs or pickup trucks. That's a far cry from even the 1990s ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited a disputed study from a close network of fellow vaccine skeptics during his confirmation hearings. His critics say it is part of a pattern that raises concerns about whose ...

Paper straws are “out” under the Trump administration, as he sucked the air out of the push for a more eco-friendly drink ...

By disparaging public-health methods and discrediting vaccines, the COVID‑19 minimizers cost hundreds of thousands of people ...

A child would need to eat 9,000 cookies in a day to approach harmful levels of pesticide or naturally occurring heavy metals.

Unless data silos in government are addressed, the UK risks falling short of the Action Plan’s ambitious goals to lead in AI ...

Here's one more reason to think about cycling to work: a new study has found people who commute by bicycle tend to have fewer ...

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