Critics of Haidt’s take suggest that the evidence is mixed regarding whether increasing levels of teen mental health problems ...

Two recent books make an impassioned case that in recent years, politics has tainted both health policy and science.

A funding pause at the University of Michigan illustrates the uncertainty around new language in NIH grant awards.

The Biden administration had mandated that coal- and gas-fired power plants drastically reduce emissions by the 2030s.

Researchers have long advocated for a more systematic approach to environmental health, but funding may not hold.

A research team projects that changes to public health insurance coverage may lead to upwards of 51,000 deaths a year.

Thus begins Thomas Levenson’s thought-provoking book, “So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs — and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease.” A professor of ...

Norway's crusade to eliminate gasoline powered cars was years in the making. Can that achievement be replicated?

The researchers published their findings in the journal Science in 2017, and the results showed that the parts of the brain responsive to the tone were more active when participants reported hearing ...

I n 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

T wo years ago, at a Stop & Shop in Rhode Island, the Danish neuroscientist and physician Henriette Edemann-Callesen visited an aisle stocked with sleep aids containing melatonin. She looked around in ...