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In recent years, the majority of stimulant-related overdose deaths have also involved fentanyl or other synthetic opioids.

Creating inclusive communities means not just offering services to people with serious mental illness, but changing negative beliefs and behaviors toward them.

Medicaid improves access to care for low-wage workers who cannot survive on bare-bone benefits offered by their employers.

The justices ruled that a key preventive health task force has authority because it is appointed by the Health and Human Services secretary. Some experts worry that RFK Jr. could politicize it.

Adriana Smith's body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don't capture the ethical complexities of such situations.

Florida is one of the worst states in the US when it comes to access to affordable dental care - and children are suffering as a result.

The ruling limits the rights of Medicaid patients to choose their own health care provider. It could have consequences far beyond South Carolina.

The risk of harmful algal blooms can be reduced. The biggest drivers of the increase are farm fertilizer and climate change.

The blooms have become an annual problem in the Great Lakes. DNA studies show what's growing there and why it's dangerous.

The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.