New online map lets readers explore cancer risks in their counties…older, poor-quality housing leaves residents vulnerable to ...

Global health endangered at “unprecedented’ levels” … Job-related chemicals raise immigrants’ breast cancer risks … Dangerous pregnancy complications higher in states with abortion bans … and more.

Some experts believe CKD is the first chronic illness directly linked to climate change. This story is the third in a series ...

Standing before the United Nations last month, U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed long-held animosity for the body dating back decades to when his company was apparently rejected for a renovations ...

Hundreds of thousands of more children in the United States are going without health insurance, and experts warn that actions by the Trump administration and Congress will likely make the problem ...

Texas Health and Environment Alliance founder Jackie Medcalf stands near the San Jacinto River in Highlands, Texas. For the past eight months, Medcalf has pushed the state to release ...

Connie Boulware, of Houston, opens up half her duplex as a “hub house” to residents forced out of their homes by hurricanes or other disasters. She wishes Harris County officials were better-prepared ...

Krystal Nice has been diagnosed with several mental-health conditions and has struggled to gain approval of monthly disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. Credit: Michael ...

Lynda Smith has been living with epilepsy for almost two decades and struggled for years to get her seizures under control. She’s been uninsured ever since moving back to Texas and can’t qualify for ...

Maria Alanis hands her mother, Isabel, a flower outside their home in Brownsville, Texas. Maria has been a full-time caregiver since her mother was diagnosed with dementia in 2018. Credit: Miguel ...

Rosie Brown, executive director at East Carroll Community Action Agency in Lake Providence, La., said people are still struggling to make ends meet in the Delta. “We still have people who are working ...