Infectious diseases can move fast, spreading from person to person within days or sometimes mere hours. To effectively identify and reduce the spread of communicable diseases and other health threats, ...

Editor’s Note: This fact sheet was updated October 2024 to revise the recommendations based on the latest INC negotiations. Plastic pollution has become an urgent global challenge. Its exponential ...

PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it has awarded more than $8 million to Philadelphia-area nonprofit organizations working to improve maternal and infant health for ...

At some point this year, borrowers will likely be required to start repaying their federal student loans for the first time in three years, as the pandemic-related pause on payments, interest accrual, ...

State automated savings programs are designed to help millions of private sector workers gain access to retirement savings at work. In the past five years, five states have launched such ...

State and territory broadband offices have dramatically increased in size over the past year as they deploy billions of dollars in economic recovery funds and start to manage a historic federal ...

Editor’s note: This analysis was updated to include the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, which went into effect on July 16, 2022. A new national three-digit phone number debuts July 16 with the ...

For millennia, healthy, free-flowing rivers across the U.S. have helped people, wildlife, and habitats thrive. But today, too many of those rivers are blocked by dams or threatened by pollution, ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, federal law required most people taking methadone for opioid use disorder (OUD) to visit an opioid treatment program (OTP) daily or near daily to receive a single dose of ...

Estuaries, with their diverse habitats including salt marshes, forested tidal wetlands, and seagrass meadows, are among the most productive—and threatened—ecosystems on the planet. In Oregon, they ...

To some, the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) might be an unlikely player in the work to reduce the effects of climate change. But the military has a key role to play at the intersection of national ...

Racial and ethnic inequities in children’s oral health persist from coast to coast, according to data published by 22 states and analyzed by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The prevalence of treated and ...