Public Health

Government layoffs threaten to make it easier for the Trump administration to ditch draft heat safety regulations

Temperatures are rising, and so are mental health risks

It’s one step forward and two steps back for vaccine policy in the U.S. Plus, we discuss the fishy origins of sensitive teeth and megalodon diets.

The House of Representatives’ first caucus to address extreme heat is being launched by a Democrat from the Southwest and a Republican from the Northeast

Oil industry opposition to a planned OSHA rule to limit heat deaths comes as oil and gas workers face increasingly dangerous conditions

Despite the fact that vaccines against COVID have already undergone strict safety reviews and that people continue to die from the disease, Trump’s FDA is moving to reduce access to annual COVID boosters for healthy Americans

Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband figured out that disease-causing pathogens can spread through the air like smoke

Extreme heat is becoming more prevalent. We need to protect people who work and play outside

Kosmos-482 crash-lands, physicists turn lead to gold and animals show some clever behaviors.

Medical research shows that social isolation is a serious chronic stressor. You can say something similar about its impact on our political system

A coalition of autism scientists has formed to counter RFK, Jr.’s misrepresentations of science and of autism spectrum disorder

As U.S. childhood vaccination rates sway on a “knife’s edge,” new 25-year projections reveal how slight changes in national immunization could improve—or drastically reverse—the prevalence of measles, polio, rubella and diphtheria