Hundreds died from indirect causes after wildfires…maternal death rates climb in states without expanded Medicaid…millions ...

Texas leaders are hoping to boost research funding for Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related diseases. But doctors and ...

Texas leaders are hoping to boost research funding for Alzheimer's and other dementia-related diseases. But doctors and family caregivers in the chronically underfunded Rio Grande Valley worry they ...

Hotter temperatures increasing ED visits Increasing temperatures are sending more people in the U.S. to hospital emergency departments, new research shows. Published July 30 in Science Advances, the ...

The federal government has struggled to control the carcinogen, which threatens workers and residents who are exposed to it. Users and manufacturers have gone to extremes to argue that it’s dangerous ...

How they did it: To estimate deaths and health conditions attributable to fine-particle pollution in Texas, researchers Luke Bryan and Dr. Philip Landrigan plugged demographic and air-pollution data ...

The evidence continues to mount that a widely used firefighting foam may be linked to high rates of cancer among U.S. firefighters. Why is the foam still in firehouses?

A cracked pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, released a flammable white vapor that quickly ignited, sending a large cloud of black smoke across surrounding communities on August 6 ...

Today "The Cancer Factory," an investigative book by Public Health Watch founder Jim Morris, goes on sale. It shows how blue-collar workers can be exposed to deadly substances without their knowledge, ...

This story was jointly produced by Public Health Watch and the Investigative Reporting Workshop. Until the drought, water engineers at the Des Moines Water Works had to make a difficult choice every ...