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Giving low-income families extra money during pregnancy can help babies get a healthier start to life, new research shows. Expectant parents who received monthly cash payments through a short-lived ...

Just this week, the president froze billions in funding for renewable-energy projects in Democrat-led states amidst a wider ...

Decades of progress on children’s health coverage is being slowly erased, with the U.S. rate now at a 10-year high. Texas ...

Outdoor air pollution can increase breast cancer risks, the largest U.S. study of its kind confirms. Published in the American Journal of Public Health, the research examined data on nearly 28,000 ...

Texas Health and Environment Alliance founder Jackie Medcalf stands near the San Jacinto River in Highlands, Texas. For the past eight months, Medcalf has pushed the state to release ...

Connie Boulware, of Houston, opens up half her duplex as a “hub house” to residents forced out of their homes by hurricanes or other disasters. She wishes Harris County officials were better-prepared ...

Continued steep cuts to the National Institutes of Health could slow the pipeline of life-saving medicines in the U.S., a new analysis warns. A proposed 39% budget cut to the NIH could put the ...

As climate change intensifies, heat health risks from accelerated aging to bad decision-making grow worldwide. Here’s what you need to know.

Kevin Miller can get a person to the brink of heat stroke in 30 minutes. In a chamber with a temperature of around 100 degrees, he starts them out on the treadmill, switching off between three minutes ...