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

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.

Scorecard ranks best, worst states for Medicare … Health care workers struggle with financial, job insecurity … Climate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giving low-income families extra money during pregnancy can help babies get a healthier start to life, new research shows. Expectant parents who received monthly cash payments through a short-lived ...

Outdoor air pollution can increase breast cancer risks, the largest U.S. study of its kind confirms. Published in the American Journal of Public Health, the research examined data on nearly 28,000 ...

Decades of progress on children’s health coverage is being slowly erased, with the U.S. rate now at a 10-year high. Texas still has the highest rate of uninsured kids, with a total of over 1 million.