A shortage of mental-health providers and other barriers to proving a disabling condition can make qualifying for benefits ...

Western US most at risk for lightning-caused wildfires…looming healthcare worker shortage could hurt access to care…Texas ...

Join us at Lisa Doggett’s home in central Austin to support the work of Public Health Watch, and help fuel the kind of fearless journalism Texas desperately needs to fight for our health and democracy ...

Women who experience high temperatures during their pregnancies are at greater risk for health harms — and where they live can worsen their risks, a recent study says. Published in the Journal of ...

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In the spring of 1977, federal workplace-safety regulators were confronted with a grim government study. Current and former employees of two Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plants in Ohio had been using ...

A cracked pipe at Chevron’s oil refinery in Richmond, California, released a flammable white vapor that quickly ignited, sending a large cloud of black smoke across surrounding communities on August 6 ...

The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. After the flames, nipping at the night sky like lashes from a ...

Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez has a severe case of silicosis from cutting countertops. He says he used water to suppress the dust and wore high-quality masks, but the fine silica powder still entered his ...