Health

Some experts credit the spread of naloxone, also known as Narcan, for dramatically lowering the number of fatal drug overdoses in the U.S. The medication reverses most opioid overdoses, including …

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally for Donald Trump at Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich., on Nov. 1. Trump has now tapped Kennedy for his administration. …

Protesters against masks, vaccines and vaccine passports march outside the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta in 2021. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption …

The U.S. Surgeon General identified an epidemic of loneliness in an advisory last year. Connections across generations can help both parties. kn1/iStockphoto/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption kn1/iStockphoto/Getty Images When …

Routine childhood vaccination rates have been dropping across the U.S. and vaccine-preventable childhood diseases have been rising. Rustam Shaimov/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Rustam Shaimov/Getty Images President-elect Trump says …

The government in Lahore has closed schools and public spaces and shut down factories. Environmental lawyer Ahmad Rafay Alam shares his perspective: “frustrated” but still fighting. (Image credit: Arif Ali)

A homeless encampment in Los Angeles in July 2024. Qian Weizhon/VCG via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Qian Weizhon/VCG via Getty Images Donald Trump has promised a law-and-order approach …

Mahamat Djouma, 14, fled the war in Sudan without parents; his mother died in 2023 and his father subsequently disappeared. He came with 5-year-old twin brothers, whom he now cares …

Dr. Benjamin Jin, a biologist, works on immunotherapy for HPV+ cancers, in a lab at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., in …

“There’s actual studies that show that itching is contagious,” journalist Annie Lowrey says. “Watching somebody scratch will make a person scratch.” Kinga Krzeminska/Moment RF via Getty Images hide caption toggle …