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Residents of Houston's Fifth Ward live adjacent to two EPA Superfund sites with documented creosote contamination. The neighborhood is ninety-four percent non-Hispanic Black. It is a state-desig ...

My son Arden was 18 when he found the lump on his collarbone. The summer before, he took a cell tower maintenance job spraying Roundup along access roads. One day the truck sprayer broke, so he switch ...

The government has a knack for finding the least efficient way to solve a problem, and that's certainly the case for how Washington deals with diabetes care in America. Today, roughly one o ...

The death rate from cancer in the United States has fallen by more than one-third since 1991. HIV-related mortality has dropped ninefold since 1995. Death rates for Alzheimer's, chronic respiratory di ...

President Trump and his administration are pushing ahead with a reform that could prevent billions of dollars in annual waste, fraud, and abuse. And it could start saving taxpayers money as soon as Ja ...

Most of the public anger over the cost of American health care in recent years has been directed toward Congress, the insurance companies, and the pharmaceutical companies - but the latest nation ...

In medicine, we have always been good at measuring what we can count: mortality rates, complication rates, readmissions. For much of the 20th century, that was enough. The modern challenge -- and ...

The Trump administration's harm reduction stance is pulling in opposite directions. On one hand, the president has helped pave the way for more research to ensure drug policy is backed by scie ...

The recent House Appropriations Committee's FDA report is more than a funding document--it is a policy statement about the future of American biomedical leadership. At a time when scientifi ...

On Tuesday, the House Ways and Means Committee will seat the chief executives of America's largest health systems and ask them to explain why health care costs keep climbing. Chairman Jason Smith and ...