Halfway to the SDGs’ 2030 deadline, countries have made progress, but most are struggling to meet all 17 goals. The US is no exception.

Tuberculosis is a preventable and curable disease, yet before the pandemic, it killed more people than any other infectious disease.

The emergency status allowed the federal government to cut through a mountain of red tape, with the goal of responding to the pandemic more efficiently.

The first transgender medical clinic opened in the US in the 1960s. But cisgender and intersex children began receiving similar treatments even earlier – often without their consent.

From primary care to cancer screening and insurance coverage, gender-diverse people still face many hurdles to getting good medical care.

A health policy researcher explains how doctors determine their pay rates, and the system that lets them do it.

Black American women have disproportionate HIV infection rates – in part because of systemic and structural racism in the health care system.

This finding suggests public health efforts will have to address the treatment barriers these men face – like poverty or homophobia – to meet the nation’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.

Mistakes at the hands of health care providers are the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. And many of the blunders are a byproduct of the system.

Health researchers hope a new regulation requiring hospitals to post their prices will tame soaring health care costs, but compliance and standardization are hurdles.