First, the good news: The overall cancer death rate has been on a steady decline—as have smoking rates, with only 11% of ...

A graphic circulating on social media compares Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s economic records as president and cites FactCheck.org as the source. But two of its figures are way off, and others are ...

Christine Grady, a top bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health and the wife of former top NIH official Anthony ...

"Macroeconomic uncertainty" led Southwest Airlines to pull its guidance and cut capacity for the second half of the year, the carrier said on Wednesday.

Cuts to SNAP would be detrimental to the emergency food system in Illinois, including food pantries and food banks.

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Outbreaks of infectious diseases, including measles, meningitis and yellow fever, have been increasing globall ...

Global aid funding cuts, led by the United States, are disrupting efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases ...

Since the pandemic, federal student loan borrowers have been mostly protected from the harshest consequences of defaulting.

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World Health Organization member states agreed to the treaty after three years of talks. NPR speaks with Precious Matsoso, who served as co-chair of the group tasked with creating the treaty.