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High blood pressure alone kills more people worldwide than all usual infectious diseases

The chief medical advisor to the president and NIH luminary shares news that he is stepping down from roles "to pursue the next chapter of my career"

Scrapping of colonial-era section 377A law hailed as "a win for humanity" by LGBTQ+ rights groups

Young people turning away from alcohol is generally welcomed as a positive trend. But it's bad news for booze companies and government revenues

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said the agency needs to acknowledge the flaws of its response to the pandemic

Here's how a scrappy team of scientists, public health experts, and plumbers is embracing wastewater surveillance as the future of disease tracking

Understanding what drives household-level decisions to cook with polluting stoves and fuels must be grounded in theory for sustained change to occur

Scotland is offering tampons and other period products free to anyone who needs them— the first nation in the world to do so

There are imbalances in global health that perpetuate inequalities in the authorship of scientific publications

For the developing world, refrigeration is growth. In Rwanda, it could spark an economic transformation

The detection of the virus in sewage suggests it is circulating in the city, Health Department officials said

A new study shows Arctic warming is much worse than scientists thought