Two recent books make an impassioned case that in recent years, politics has tainted both health policy and science.

A funding pause at the University of Michigan illustrates the uncertainty around new language in NIH grant awards.

The Biden administration had mandated that coal- and gas-fired power plants drastically reduce emissions by the 2030s.

Researchers have long advocated for a more systematic approach to environmental health, but funding may not hold.

A research team projects that changes to public health insurance coverage may lead to upwards of 51,000 deaths a year.

Thus begins Thomas Levenson’s thought-provoking book, “So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs — ...

Norway's crusade to eliminate gasoline powered cars was years in the making. Can that achievement be replicated?

Jennie Erin Smith’s “Valley of Forgetting” explores the genetic roots of early-onset dementia plaguing a mountain region.