Health

If this weren’t enough to convince rational people to do what most other advanced nations have done – create a single-payer system that insures everyone, funded by taxpayers – consider that America’s giant health insurers are now busily consolidating into ever-larger behemoths.

Despite the defeat in Congress, the pro-labeling campaign had had a huge impact - and the campaign’s effort to educate the public is paying off.

The American Society of Civil Engineers gave the U.S. a “D” grade for the quality of its drinking water systems based on an evaluation of their safety, condition, capacity and other criteria.

The cost of healthcare doesn’t just protect the patient, but potentially it protects all of us from the spread of disease. Paying that cost should be a matter of social importance.

Every time you stick a load of clothes into a tumble dryer, you may be releasing hundreds of thousands of microfibers into...

We can understand the problem best through the example of diabetic ketoacidosis.

The study, published Friday in Science Advances, represents the first time researchers have quantified the link between gas stoves and asthma from NO2 exposures inside homes.

Earlier this month a State of Emergency was declared and the National Guard was called in to Flint to help with the ongoing crisis.

The number of certified organic acres in the country rose by more than 10 percent over the past two years.

Cleanup of this spill may last until spring.