Decades of progress on children’s health coverage is being slowly erased, with the U.S. rate now at a 10-year high. Texas ...

Last year, state epidemiologists studied an industrialized region east of Houston. They reported finding high rates of cancer ...

Although Harris County has found that industrial air toxics and pipelines can pose a significant risk to residents, emergency ...

Outdoor air pollution can increase breast cancer risks, the largest U.S. study of its kind confirms. Published in the American Journal of Public Health, the research examined data on nearly 28,000 ...

Continued steep cuts to the National Institutes of Health could slow the pipeline of life-saving medicines in the U.S., a new analysis warns. A proposed 39% budget cut to the NIH could put the ...

Although Harris County has found that industrial air toxics and pipelines can pose a significant risk to residents, emergency management officials say no mitigation initiatives have been developed ...

As climate change intensifies, heat health risks from accelerated aging to bad decision-making grow worldwide. Here’s what ...

A book on a preventable workplace cancer epidemic by Public Health Watch founder Jim Morris has won the 2025 Science-in-Society award from the National Association of Science Writers.