Last year, I spoke with an Iowa mother who found her then-6-year-old son attempting to take his own life during a monthslong ...

Violence prevention programs, particularly community-based interventions, can significantly reduce homicides and shootings in ...

Asian Americans, who make up 7% of the U.S. population, account for more than half of all chronic hepatitis B cases. Roughly ...

The conversations were emotional and difficult to hear. But parents wanted to share stories about who their children were and ...

Dobbs, that people are doing everything within their power and expertise to make sure that people can still get care," said ...

While the state Department of Education has made trainings and tools available, researchers say it needs to do more to help ...

Lottie L. Joiner, a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer, wrote this story while participating in the National Health Journalism Fellowship, a program of the University of Southern California’s ...

Three cohort studies in the United States are tracking the long-term consequences on the developing brain of pesticide exposure during pregnancy and the early years of life. The studies are finding ...

Keriana Carll cries in pain nearly every day. Her mouth hurts. She doesn’t eat much. The Bradenton 4-year-old who loves to blow bubbles has such severe dental disease that she had to get her front ...

Being homeless isn't easy anywhere, but especially not in Anchorage, Alaska, where hundreds subsist at the confluence of chronic homelessness and addiction. These individuals are the most prolific ...