Health

In places like Mingo County, W.Va., where working-age people are dying at record rates, a nurse learns what it takes to make America healthy.

Researchers found that compounds in black and green tea leaves acted like “little Velcro” hooks on lead molecules.

Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the consequences.

The Trump administration has canceled at least four of the five contracts with organizations that helped manage the outbreak in Uganda.

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

The contracts financed Ebola screening at airports and protective equipment for health workers, and helped prevent transmission by survivors of the disease, according to a former U.S.A.I.D. official.

Decluttering experts share their best tips.

The Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of reliable information in many countries on metrics such as mortality, nutrition and education.

The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.