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Public health is under pressure. Across health systems around the world, funding is declining, exhausted professionals are leaving the field, and in the United States, state…

Obesity rates in the US are starting to declineEvgeniya Pavlova/Getty Images Obesity rates in the United States have been rising in recent decades, but that trend…

Plastic food packaging can expose people to chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA)Shutterstock/Trong Nguyen Hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of heart disease cases worldwide…

But Jim Potter, executive director of the bipartisan Health Communications Coalition, said the administration would likely face legal challenges if it proposed additional restrictions or outright…

Millions of US residents may be drinking water containing potentially harmful compoundsYu Yu Hui/Getty Images Common disinfectants found in drinking water break down into compounds about…

Breast cancer cells metastasized to the liverConnect images / Alamy Global cancer deaths are expected to nearly double by 2050, primarily in low- and middle-income countries.…

There are tiny pieces of plastic in the food we eat and the air we breathe.SIVStockStudio/Shutterstock It seems like every few months, microplastics are discovered in…

New coronavirus variant XEC may spread more easily than previous variantsJarun Ontakrai/Shutterstock A new COVID-19 variant called XEC has begun to spread around the world, primarily…

25 Years Later Pediatric infectious disease specialist Asuncion Mejias knows all too well the deadly unpredictability of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an infection that hospitalizes 80,000…

In 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, the disease steadily grew and spread across the U.S. That fateful year, gun violence claimed the lives of 45,222…