Two recent books make an impassioned case that in recent years, politics has tainted both health policy and science.

American science stands on the precipice. On one side is the administration of Donald Trump and MAGA political leaders threatening to push us over the cliff; on the other is the quick plunge to ...

A funding pause at the University of Michigan illustrates the uncertainty around new language in NIH grant awards.

The Biden administration had mandated that coal- and gas-fired power plants drastically reduce emissions by the 2030s.

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.

Thus begins Thomas Levenson’s thought-provoking book, “So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs — ...

Norway's crusade to eliminate gasoline powered cars was years in the making. Can that achievement be replicated?

Jennie Erin Smith’s “Valley of Forgetting” explores the genetic roots of early-onset dementia plaguing a mountain region.