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A funding pause at the University of Michigan illustrates the uncertainty around new language in NIH grant awards.
Researchers have long advocated for a more systematic approach to environmental health, but funding may not hold.
A research team projects that changes to public health insurance coverage may lead to upwards of 51,000 deaths a year.
Norway's crusade to eliminate gasoline powered cars was years in the making. Can that achievement be replicated?
The Biden administration had mandated that coal- and gas-fired power plants drastically reduce emissions by the 2030s.
You’re pregnant, healthy, and hearing mixed messages: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is not a scientist or doctor, says you don’t need the Covid vaccine, but experts at ...
Two recent books make an impassioned case that in recent years, politics has tainted both health policy and science.
Thus begins Thomas Levenson’s thought-provoking book, “So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs — ...
That cause — a hereditary genetic mutation known as E280A — is at the heart of science journalist Jennie Erin Smith’s deeply researched book, “Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families and the Search ...