A little-known virus is spreading rapidly across the United States, with major population centers on high alert.

The CDC's Mental Health Data Channel reports that one in three U.S. high school students felt their mental health was poor most or all of the time. Meanwhile, one in five adults has been diagnosed ...

In A Nutshell Louisiana ranks as the most stressed state in America in 2026, weighed down by the nation’s highest poverty rate, limited access to affordable healthcare, and some of the worst mental ...

A recent study in Nature Communications suggests that Americans living closer to nuclear power plants face higher cancer death rates. As interest in nuclear energy grows again, results like these can ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, a virus that spilled over from birds into marine mammals along the coast of South ...

Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making ...

Key Takeaways Up to 155,000 COVID deaths may have been missed early on in the pandemicAbout 16% of deaths in 2020 and 2021 ...

“Four minutes is too long.” That’s the note undergraduate Chris Zuo sent me along with photos of countless mosquito bites on his bare skin. This full-body massacre wasn’t the result of a camping trip ...

Stress often doesn't strike dramatically but quietly stacks up, leading to persistent tiredness and a full mind. This ...