In 2009, the agency concluded climate change endangers humans and the environment. Now, Lee Zeldin plans to reverse course.

Companies have scant financial incentive to develop new antibiotics. Will the NIH continue to support relevant research?

As people turn to AI for therapy and companionship, some say the models still need to learn the nuances of human humor.

As more people become aware of high exposures to PFAS, blood tests and clear medical advice can be difficult to find.

A series of recent changes could have significant implications for how Americans receive and pay for their shots.

The agency's new drug czar wants to reanalyze risk-benefit data on ingestible fluoride, which is recommended for many ...

Two years ago, at a Stop & Shop in Rhode Island, the Danish neuroscientist and physician Henriette Edemann-Callesen visited an aisle stocked with sleep aids containing melatonin. She looked around in ...

Once mutually wary, farmers and scientists are working jointly to save a key ecosystem -- and an endangered salamander.

Vaccination, too, arose during this frenzied period of trial and error, which, if you squint a little, looks a lot like the early days of the Covid-19 outbreak, when desperate doctors were willing to ...

Last August, after a long day at work, Karen Linnell tossed a couple of coolers and a bag full of dried moose meat into the back of her pickup truck. Her friend had caught a haul of chinook and ...

American ginseng is imperiled by overharvesting. Locals are racing to preserve the plant — and its economic potential.