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An editorial cartoon by Jenna Luecke

Flaming air conditioners, eggs boiling in the sand, and other signs of deadly heat

The Department of Health and Human Services’ resilience policy undermines efforts to prevent climate disaster.

Its treatment and recovery centers are designed for Indigenous people recovering from substance use disorder and healing from trauma.

There are new ways to gather data on marginalized groups. It’s time to use them.

Outcomes improve when patients see doctors who look like them.

Experts say the country could be a model for the world. Instead, its TB fight has floundered.

An aerial piping system brings residents clean, affordable water.

Where markets fail, collaboration might just succeed.

Studies show that Muslim Americans have exponentially higher rates of mental illness, including suicide, compared to other religious groups.

The stories are touching. What they reveal is damning.

The overwhelming Whiteness of mental health care has shaped the way we talk about it.

“I would rather have an alive kid on testosterone than a dead kid that’s not,” says one North Carolina mom.

Ashwin Vasan, the city’s health commissioner, hopes to reverse declines in life expectancy with a new program.

With new state funds, some California health care providers move to offer what homeless patients really need: housing.

Latinas make up 17 percent of U.S. women, but 21 percent of those living with HIV.

The program responds to racial and insurance-based inequities in maternal care in Guilford County.

A better understanding of the placenta may help curb maternal and fetal mortality rates, but progress is slow.

Christian Happi is pioneering a revolutionary approach to fighting disease.

A scientist-turned-patient finds that access issues cloud the technology’s potential.

Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize for inventing a powerful gene editing technology. What comes next for CRISPR?