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A swim team combats the public health threat of drowning — especially among Black children and adults — by promoting water safety not just for its athletes but also their parents.

To deliver on pledges from the Trump administration to make America healthy again, policymakers will need to close gaps in longevity among racial and ethnic groups.

Some Trump insiders are ready to take on the food industry. It remains to be seen whether their entree will result in any meaningful change in government oversight of “Big Food” — or in American health.

Access to information in languages other than English is protected by various policies. But researchers say that as rural America grows more diverse, people not proficient in the language face added barriers.

Research suggests repeated exposure to stressors, such as racism and discrimination, leads to poor health outcomes among Black Americans. In Part 1 of this special series "The Price of Pain: Black Health & Reparations in America," we explore the effects of racial weathering.

Adults who develop one autoimmune form of diabetes are often misdiagnosed with Type 2. Those wrong diagnoses make it harder to get the appropriate medications and technology to manage blood sugar.

Social and economic pressures have long compelled Black girls and women to straighten their hair. But mounting evidence shows chemical straighteners — products with little regulatory oversight — may pose cancer and other health risks.

Non-Hispanic Black women — regardless of income or education level — die at nearly three times the rate of non-Hispanic white women.

An EEG can help diagnose conditions like epilepsy, sleep disorders and brain tumors. But a design flaw and outdated Eurocentric practices make the test less effective on thicker, denser and curly hair types.

The country is suffering from a severe shortage of affordable housing. But elected officials have done little to fix a problem that puts many Americans at greater risk for sickness and shortens lives.