When COVID-19 engulfed New York City in the spring of 2020, one of the hardest hit groups was the city’s homeless population, comprising...

The United States is home to the highest rate of maternal mortality in the developed world. In particular, African American women suffer...

E-cigarette companies, which occupy a market valued at $11 billion, are now under fire for business malpractice as well as misleading and...

Meatless “meat” is on the rise, and ranchers aren’t happy about it. People are increasingly turning to vegetarian and vegan substitutes...

Across six time zones, Americans sit in traffic, wait on platforms, and squeeze between strangers. We spend an average of 26.9 minutes...

Hours before the AFC championship game this February, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft solicited sex workers at the Orchids of...

The financial state of the U.S. healthcare system is decidedly unhealthy. For a country that prides itself on market-based efficiency,...

2018 was the “Year of the Woman”; across the U.S., citizens are rightfully excited by the significant rise in both female...

The rising cost of healthcare in the United States is old news, with spending projected to increase over five percent annually until...

Wilbur Ross, the United States Secretary of Commerce, has come under fire for callously stating that federal workers struggling to pay...

Up to 40 percent of the food produced in the United States is never eaten. At the same time, one in every eight Americans struggles to...

For Elsie Herring, time spent outdoors is strictly determined by the industrial hog farm hidden just behind the trees that line her...

A medical treatment plan that primarily consists of playing bingo and watching Tootsie and Batman sounds like something which is neither...

In 2017, the U.S. birth rate sunk to the lowest percentage in 30 years, prompting concern from labor economists and other groups. This...

Obesity has been labeled a “silent killer,” a modern-day epidemic plaguing the nation. Diet-related disease is the leading cause of death...

Organ donors, both living and deceased, play a vital and lifesaving role in modern medicine. Whole-body donors play a role just as vital,...

There is a fascinating irony about the way that humans go about constructing streets: Boulevard after boulevard is paved not for people,...

The opioid crisis is one of the worst public health emergencies ever to plague the United States. In 2017, 72,000 people died from drug...

Congress recently passed an opioid policy package allocating $8.4 billion to address the drug epidemic that claimed 72,000 lives just...

Physician burnout—not Zika or Ebola—is the next big epidemic threatening our health care system. Doctors in the United States are more...