"Excited delirium" perpetuates racial stereotypes and justifies police brutality. A new study bolsters efforts to discredit it.
Adolescence is the prime time to help young women who’ve had repeated run-ins with the US juvenile justice system find a different path.
Memories of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study may have affected the willingness of Black Americans in the South to get the COVID vaccine.
In just the next 26 years, as many as 500,000 people living in 32 coastal cities in the US could experience significant flooding.
Laws that allow undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses boost the overall health and well-being of immigrant moms and their babies.
Black and white parents talked to their kids about the Black Lives Matter movement after the murder of George Floyd, but used different language to explain it.
Nearly 15% of Americans deny that climate change is real. Public figures such as Donald Trump play an outsized role in influencing beliefs.
This year, the US is expected to surpass more than two million new cases of cancer for the first time ever. An oncologist discusses why.
School nurses can play a key role in identifying students who are at risk for chronic absenteeism, according to a new study.
Progress toward the elimination of tuberculosis in the United States has been stalled by significant racial and ethnic disparities.
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