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Governments around the world are enacting measures to try to protect workers from the dangers of heat stress. They're barely keeping up with the risks.

Democrats are calling for the creation of a state equivalent of the National Institutes of Health, but first state lawmakers and then voters would need to approve it.

Regulators sent about 100 warning letters this week to drug advertisers, including to Hims & Hers, a major online provider of weight-loss drugs.

Citing laws more commonly used against organized crime, the lawsuit argued that fossil fuel companies were responsible for devastating hurricane damage in Puerto Rico.

The agency plans to present accounts of deaths involving children and birth defects to an influential C.D.C. panel meeting next week.

He gained a following for techniques, notably one known as mewing, that he said could help fix crooked teeth without surgery. The medical establishment disagreed.

Rachael Ray and other food celebrities are speaking up in defense of nonstick pans. The actor Mark Ruffalo, who starred in a movie about the risky chemicals, is criticizing them.

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered the best place on Earth to study space.

The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign aid.

The intent is to protect health care providers who send the pills to patients in states with abortion bans, and to reassure patients who fear they could be identified.