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 ...

Last year, state epidemiologists studied an industrialized region east of Houston. They reported finding high rates of cancer ...

Although Harris County has found that industrial air toxics and pipelines can pose a significant risk to residents, emergency ...

The Public Health Watch serial podcast “Fumed,” which profiles two politically conservative residents of a Texas community besieged by pollution, has won a Barlett and Steele award for investigative ...

More rural hospitals could be forced to close … Hispanic, Black workers face high rates of serious on-the-job injuries ... Nanoplastics build up in produce … and more.

Krystal Nice has been diagnosed with several mental-health conditions and has struggled to gain approval of monthly disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. Credit: Michael ...

Lynda Smith has been living with epilepsy for almost two decades and struggled for years to get her seizures under control. She’s been uninsured ever since moving back to Texas and can’t qualify for ...