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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.

Understanding your “social health style” boosts wellbeing and helps fend off loneliness.

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.

States may be able to do more, and do more quickly, than the federal government.

Grassroots mutual aid can fight food waste and food insecurity while bringing communities closer together.

Studies suggest people who use the program are less healthy than people who don’t.

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?