Last year, I spoke with an Iowa mother who found her then-6-year-old son attempting to take his own life during a monthslong ...

Violence prevention programs, particularly community-based interventions, can significantly reduce homicides and shootings in ...

Asian Americans, who make up 7% of the U.S. population, account for more than half of all chronic hepatitis B cases. Roughly ...

The conversations were emotional and difficult to hear. But parents wanted to share stories about who their children were and ...

Dobbs, that people are doing everything within their power and expertise to make sure that people can still get care," said ...

While the state Department of Education has made trainings and tools available, researchers say it needs to do more to help ...

Lottie L. Joiner, a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer, wrote this story while participating in the National Health Journalism Fellowship, a program of the University of Southern California’s ...

Three cohort studies in the United States are tracking the long-term consequences on the developing brain of pesticide exposure during pregnancy and the early years of life. The studies are finding ...

This story was written with the support of the National Health Journalism Fellowship, a program of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism. One afternoon in November, ...

Huddled in a backyard shed in Sulphur Springs, the four boys examined their prize: a .380-caliber pistol so smooth it looked like a futuristic toy. One of the boys had stolen it from his uncle. They ...