“We’re really the only country in the world that keeps people locked up so many years. We are getting so used to that here that we forget that that’s not normal and other countries look at us like we’re crazy.”

The American government’s decision to build an Ebola quarantine facility over 700 miles away from the outbreak sparked protests, legal concerns, and the untimely death of a teenage boy.

After I suspected a climate connection to tooth decay, I conducted systematic saliva pH testing across my patient population and documented pH readings below 5.5 in 42 of my 73 climate-exposed patients, primarily sugarcane workers, cotton pickers, and construction laborers from Punjab’s most heat-affected districts.

Before Trump dismantled USAID, Mozambique had been battling hard-to-eliminate trachoma, an eye disease that causes blindness, especially among children. Now, a lack of stable funding and clean water — critical for preventing transmission, but hard to find among the wreckage caused by climate-induced cyclones and flooding — threatens to reverse the country’s modest progress.

Mass marine die-off triggers health emergency in New Ireland Province as neglected coastal towns wait on government action.

The Trump administration is constantly enacting policies that slow clean energy deployment and expand fossil fuel infrastructure. These policies will only make the problem much worse, and a big reason why we can’t ignore the driver of climate change as a root cause and threat multiplier of childhood chronic disease.

While factors such as loud noise, aging, injuries, and chronic illnesses can cause hearing impairment, a growing number of studies have found an unusual connection between air pollution and hearing loss.

H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way for the outbreak we’re seeing today.

Leveraging trust built over time, doctors hope to depolarize the issue and break through misinformation.

Here are some of the most interesting — and weird and colorful and complicated — charts we made in the last 12 months.