Public school access to high-quality teachers is shrinking, while teen reports of feeling unsafe at school are on the rise.

Scientific discoveries are necessary to eliminate epidemic diseases. But addressing socioeconomic factors is just as essential in the fight against diseases such as syphilis, AIDS and TB.

Covid-19 showed us how vulnerable the world is to pandemics – but what if the next pandemic were somehow engineered? How would the world respond – and could we

With the devastating 1918 pandemic in mind, US health officials saw an outbreak in Asia and swung into action. What happened offers lessons for today.

An expert digs into why fungi are a growing public health threat and what tools we have to protect ourselves from a future fungal outbreak.

Black Americans were disproportionately affected by COVID-19 infections, illness and death during the pandemic. But the long-term toll of long COVID among this group is still largely overlooked.

Raw milk can carry many dangerous germs − now including the H5N1 virus that causes avian flu.

Rather than winging it when an unusual health event crops up, health officials take a systematic approach. The goal is to quickly figure out what’s going on and squash any outbreak before it spreads.

Harris and Trump have starkly contrasting records on health care. This analysis examines their differing approaches to Medicare, the ACA, drug pricing and other public health efforts.