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In crowded Kinshasa, two strains of mpox are sweeping through a community that relies on selling sex. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines sent to the country have not been used.

Across the country, trash incinerators disproportionately overburden majority-Black and -Hispanic communities. Though the number of incinerators has declined nationwide since the 1980s, Florida offers financial incentives to waste management companies that expand existing facilities or build new…

From the archives of “An Arm and a Leg”: a family tragedy, a 40-year tradition, and a million dollars in medical debt erased.

Homelessness experts and community leaders say vulnerability questionnaires have worsened racial disparities among the unhoused by systematically placing white people in front of the line ahead of Black people. Now places like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Austin, Texas, are developing alternative…

Street medicine providers and homeless outreach workers who travel into Las Vegas’ drainage tunnels have noticed an uptick in the number of people living underground, and it can be difficult to persuade them to come aboveground for medicine and treatment.

Attempts to restrict pharmaceutical advertisements have failed many times over the years, often on First Amendment grounds.

U.S. senators and other lawmakers argue the problems created by UnitedHealth's size and reach demand steps to restore public confidence in the health care system

Trans patients and advocates worry politicians could claw back access to life-changing surgeries

In the U.S., 62% of adult women live with bladder and/or bowel leaks. It doesn’t have to be this way.

A patchwork of state laws governing artificial intelligence could create a regulatory labyrinth for tech developers and health systems.