public health

A group of at least 20 kids in Spain gets a rare illness with historical roots.

We often discuss what the minimum wage does to the economy, but rarely do we discuss what it does to people.

An extinction events expert sounds a dire warning.

What’s next for the nation’s opioid cases?

How many other disease-fighting compounds might we find in the ocean?

If we make the right choices, there’s hope for the future.

How deep are America’s cultural fault lines? Depends on which data you crunch.

Russia urges villagers to leave nuclear fallout area and then tells them to come back.

The premier hospitals tend to have the most superbugs — they also have the best experts.

Russia’s state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom denies the allegations.

Two Apollo 11 astronauts question NASA’s planetary safety procedures.

Considering the U.S.’s history of biological warfare, maybe this theory isn’t as crazy as it sounds.

Activist and Big Think reader Roy M. Arce explains his idea for a new community policing team and how it can halt vicious cycles of PTSD and homelessness.

Ideas are plentiful; execution is another story.

They’re hiding in your house, carrying germs, and now there’s virtually no way to kill them.

A new study highlights the secondhand effects of drinking, arguing that higher taxation could curb problems.

The “dangerous people” framework is a myth.

#MeToo and #TimesUp catapult America into the club of world’s most anti-women countries.

We’re going to have to reckon with our workweek sooner than later.

Here’s how we stop a health crisis before it wreaks havoc on us.

Three academic papers from Australia shows sizable bone spurs growing at the base of our skulls.

Spending between 120–300 minutes per week in nature shown to increase wellbeing.

The Ghazipur dump keeps growing and growing every year, catching fire and leaching toxins into the ground. What can be done about it?

How can a misfolded protein be behind some of the strangest and deadliest diseases out there?

Surrounding counties boast even higher increases.

100 percent fruit juice is still 100 percent sugar.

Normally, life expectancy increases every year. For Americans, the opioid epidemic is changing that.

Finally, a means for battling the anti-vaccination movement.

Junk food causes weight gain, but it’s not just about the calories.

Don’t believe a small reduction in immunization matters?