Health & Science

While the bulk of fatal overdoses still happen in urban areas, the rural overdose rate has increased to slightly surpass that of cities.

Hypoxia is a condition in which the ocean water close to the seafloor has such low levels of dissolved oxygen that the organisms living down there die.

Nerve-racking. Sickening. Facing your fear can be all of that — and sometimes a little thrilling, too.

Health officials said they have teams at the facility monitoring the infection, and the center has closed to new patients.

Rural Americans willing to allow people from outside their communities to help with the opioid epidemic.

Last year the world put nearly 37 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air, and emissions have been rising.

The CDC is providing technical assistance to the state Health Department.

More than 70,000 people died of drug overdoses last year.

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Minnesota’s top law enforcement official has sued two New Jersey pharmaceutical giants for “deceptive, misleading, and misrepresentative” price hikes on insulin.

The state is one of the last to move away from a 1970s standard that said someone had to be a “clear and present danger.” But the shift is controversial.

Ovarian cancer is the eighth leading cause of cancer in women, according to the World Health Organization.

Conquistadors and missionaries didn't just bring colonialism and Western religion to other parts of the world. They likely brought TB, too.

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The city calls its new emergency-oriented approach “The Philadelphia Resilience Project,” acknowledging the deaths and suffering caused by addiction go beyond Kensington.