public health

It was 3:35 a.m. and flames from a massive Northern California wildfire licked at the back of a Santa Rosa hospital.Within three hours, staffers evacuated…

Rebeca Gonzalez grew up eating artichokes from her grandmother’s farm in the central Mexican state of Tlaxcala. But for years after emigrating to the…

For 17 years, Chalfonte LeNee Queen suffered periodic episodes of violent retching and abdominal pain that would knock her off her feet for days,…

Updated Monday 12/18/17 at 11 a.m. State Rep. Clay Yarborough, R-Jacksonville, is co-sponsoring a bill recognizing pornography as the cause of a public...

In April 2014, state and federal drug agents raided Jeffrey Campbell’s medical clinic in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Police cars blocked the parking lot as…

The Food and Drug Administration last month sent criminal investigation agents with search warrants into nine storefronts across Central Florida that help…

After Hurricane Harvey flooded her city of Houston in August, Dr. Jennifer McQuade planned to donate socks to those affected. Instead, surprised by the…

Few people were surprised last week when the Trump administration issued a rule to make it easier for some religious employers to opt out of offering…

Dinnertime is nearing, and the kitchen in this tidy home in Buffalo, New York, is buzzing. Lamyaa Manty, a 29-year-old Iraqi refugee, wears a neon-pink…

Minority patients face a double whammy: Not only are they more likely to miss out on effective medical treatments than white patients, but, according to a…