Premature deaths and childhood health issues are linked to oil and gas pollution … Drug supply chain is threatened by weather ...

Officials in one of the fastest warming cities in the U.S. don’t track heat-related illnesses and count on an unfunded task ...

Four years ago Public Health Watch went live with its first investigations focused on the prevention of illness, injury and ...

The federal government has struggled to control the carcinogen, which threatens workers and residents who are exposed to it. Users and manufacturers have gone to extremes to argue that it’s dangerous ...

More than a million uninsured people live near feedlots…women in states with strict abortion laws turn to ...

A stretch of South Texas is struggling with a crisis many parts of the nation could someday face: the increase in cases of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. The state’s response has been uneven ...

High levels of manganese in drinking water could harm infants and children, research shows. But industries that use or produce the metal are downplaying the risks in a fight against tighter controls ...

Officials in one of the fastest warming cities in the U.S. don’t track heat-related illnesses and count on an unfunded task ...

How they did it: To estimate deaths and health conditions attributable to fine-particle pollution in Texas, researchers Luke Bryan and Dr. Philip Landrigan plugged demographic and air-pollution data ...

While death rates for childhood cancer victims are going down, incidence rates are going up. Are environmental exposures at fault?

The evidence continues to mount that a widely used firefighting foam may be linked to high rates of cancer among U.S. firefighters. Why is the foam still in firehouses?

Texas has a high rate of diabetes compared with most other states, with 11.1% of adults, or about 2.5 million, diagnosed in 2021. The national rate was 8.5%. The disease is especially prevalent in ...