Community & Public Health

Why we know so little about preterm births and what experts want to do about it.

Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Food and Nutrition

Danielle Bergstrom speaks with Veronica Garibay, the co-founder and co-director of Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, an environmental justice organization based in Fresno.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Disabled people get pregnant and give birth at the same rates as nondisabled ones. But their outcomes are often far worse, and modern medicine has largely turned its back on them.

Women's and Maternal Health, Patient Safety and Ethics

This year saw a scorcher of a summer, the hottest on record. Worse, it could be the coldest summer we’ll see in our lifetimes, as accelerating climate change makes extreme events like the June heat dome that broiled the Pacific Northwest a regular occurrence. But the threats posed by climate change