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 ...

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 ...

A shortage of mental-health providers and other barriers to proving a disabling condition can make qualifying for benefits especially challenging. Federal funding cuts could worsen the picture.

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Downtown Houston on a smoggy day. Particulate matter, an ingredient in smog, has been linked to a long list of health effects, including premature death, stroke and breast cancer. Credit: Dave Fehling ...

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 ...

This is the first of two stories about firefighters’ cancer risks. Ben Brickhouse came to his career as a late bloomer. In December 2003, when he was 41 years old, he took a vacation to Asheville, ...

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 ...