public health

India’s capital, New Delhi, is preparing a new weapon in the fight against deadly air pollution: cloud seeding. The experiment, which could take place as early as next week, would introduce…

And hot weather may affect a baby’s development in other ways: A 2021 analysis found a higher incidence of anomalies, such as cardiac defects, spina bifida, or cleft lip, at higher…

At the start of his third year of graduate school, Kazi Albab Hussain became a father. As a new dad and a PhD student studying environmental nanotechnology, plastic was on his mind. The year…

FedEx spokesperson Adam Snyder says the company reminds contractors to closely monitor working conditions. “We encourage our team members and service providers across FedEx to take…

A sixth person, dubbed the “Geneva patient,” may be free of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant intended to treat another disease—his cancer. The man, who was diagnosed with HIV in…

Back to the study. The Connecticut group chose a site where they could monitor a small, contained deer herd: a peninsula jutting into Long Island Sound where the property surrounding a…

Early clinical trials of norgestrel, the active ingredient in Opill, have shown that the pills can be up to 98 percent effective at preventing pregnancy, but only when the drug is taken…

Just weeks after a third of the US population was hit with air-quality alerts thanks to smoke from climate-change-fueled fires in Canada, 100 million Americans are now under heat alerts. A…

At least four people in Florida and one in Texas have been diagnosed with malaria that they must have caught near where they live—because, according to health officials, none of them…

Air pollution is responsible for 8 million deaths a year globally, which is as many as tobacco. And air pollution isn't just causing lung cancer, it may cause other cancers too—including…