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A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain relief to poor, terminally ill patients.

In an order on Tuesday, a judge found the Trump administration's plans to drastically change the structure and mission of the Department of Health and Human Services was probably unlawful.

By ending tax credits for wind and solar power, Senate Republicans may have jeopardized billions in investments in their own districts.

The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.

Despite resistance from the medical establishment, he found systemic ways to reduce errors, paving the way for a global standard. Thousands of lives have been saved.

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome.

Summer travel raises fears that the highly infectious virus will spread. Here's how to protect yourself and your family.

A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy to dissect, and maybe even help people 'fall in love' with math.

Briny warm water is mixing on the surface of the ocean, making sea ice melt faster, a new study found.

U.S. officials said they would stop providing the satellite data online on July 31 rather at the end of June.