Women who live in hot urban ‘islands’ face pregnancy risks…silicosis deaths keep rising for countertop stone workers…Black ...

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World food production becoming more unstable…US clean water crisis worsens… patients without commercial insurance are less ...

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 ...

A vendor sells bottled water while shading himself with an umbrella at the exit of the Paso del Norte International Bridge during triple-digit temperatures in El Paso, Texas on Thursday, August 7, ...

The Rio Grande Valley of Texas is engulfed in an Alzheimer’s crisis. That disease — and other forms of dementia — is afflicting the Valley’s mostly Latino residents and taxing their caregivers. As ...

Four years ago yesterday – August 17, 2021 – Public Health Watch went live. That first year was a heavy lift; COVID-19 was still among us, and a new variant of the disease, Delta, was surging. The ...

Officials in one of the fastest warming cities in the U.S. don’t track heat-related illnesses and count on an unfunded task force to provide services. Heat deaths hit record highs in 2023 and 2024.

Oil and gas-related air pollution is prematurely ending the lives of 91,000 Americans a year and endangering the health of many more, a new study finds. Published Aug. 22 in Science Advances, the ...