The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, is the United States’ largest anti-hunger program and helps an average of 41.7 million Americans per month.

The healthcare.gov website, where millions of Americans buy their health insurance, seen on a laptop in Norfolk, Virginia, on November 1. Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Affordable ...

More than 800,000 lives have been lost to firearms in the United States since the start of the 21st century. It is an ongoing public health crisis that affects individuals, families, and communities ...

Ni Zhao, MS, MD, PhD, develops statistical and computational methodologies for analyzing large scale "omics" data generated from high throughput technologies, including metagenomics, genomics, and ...

Can we imagine a world where we center our attention and energy on care for one another? The Art of Care Initiative advances the idea that art and creative expression are profoundly linked to better ...

* The data presented in the maps are compiled from official sources, including state and county health departments and additional county-level news releases or news articles, and represent ...

The hygiene hypothesis is the idea that kids need to be exposed to germs in order to develop healthy immune systems. We know that many common viruses did not circulate as widely during the pandemic, ...

As COVID-19 outbreaks continue to flare up across the U.S., the need for coronavirus testing remains urgent. Individuals rely on test results to guide their medical treatment and decisions on whether ...

Receiving a diagnosis of a chronic illness can be life-altering. Along with the day-to-day physical symptoms of the illness, emotions such as sadness, grief, and denial, as well as an added financial ...

After the death of actor Matthew Perry, ketamine—for decades used as a popular party drug—came into the public eye once more. According to the medical examiner, Perry, who had been undergoing ...

The U.S. is experiencing its sharpest decline in life expectancy in more than a century—since the eras of World War I and the Great Influenza. What happened? Until 2014 life expectancy at birth in the ...

Outbreaks of H5N1 continue to rise in dairy cattle and poultry, as well as in other wild and domesticated animals, including the first confirmed infection in a pig. Human cases also continue to occur, ...