Climate change has lengthened the hot season in many parts of the U.S., which enhances the risk for workers. Schlader and ...

Scorecard ranks best, worst states for Medicare … Health care workers struggle with financial, job insecurity … Climate ...

Giving low-income families extra money during pregnancy can help babies get a healthier start to life, new research shows. Expectant parents who received monthly cash payments through a short-lived ...

Just this week, the president froze billions in funding for renewable-energy projects in Democrat-led states amidst a wider ...

Decades of progress on children’s health coverage is being slowly erased, with the U.S. rate now at a 10-year high. Texas still has the highest rate of uninsured kids, with a total of over 1 million.

Hundreds of thousands of more children in the United States are going without health insurance, and experts warn that actions by the Trump administration and Congress will likely make the problem ...

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 ...

Texas Health and Environment Alliance founder Jackie Medcalf stands near the San Jacinto River in Highlands, Texas. For the past eight months, Medcalf has pushed the state to release ...

Connie Boulware, of Houston, opens up half her duplex as a “hub house” to residents forced out of their homes by hurricanes or other disasters. She wishes Harris County officials were better-prepared ...