Two studies found that infant mortality and births increased in most states with abortion bans after the Dobbs ruling.

Dr. Varmus is a professor at Weill Cornell Medicine. He shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of cancer ...

London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly through the city, killing tens of thousands.

George Washington's second inauguration took place in Philadelphia in March 1793. Six months later, yellow fever had ripped through America's capital city, taking 5,000 lives. How did the Founding ...

In honor of Black History Month, we're covering five milestones in Black health history, from the good and great to the bad and ...