Scorecard ranks best, worst states for Medicare … Health care workers struggle with financial, job insecurity … Climate ...

Just this week, the president froze billions in funding for renewable-energy projects in Democrat-led states amidst a wider ...

Decades of progress on children’s health coverage is being slowly erased, with the U.S. rate now at a 10-year high. Texas ...

Texas Health and Environment Alliance founder Jackie Medcalf stands near the San Jacinto River in Highlands, Texas. For the past eight months, Medcalf has pushed the state to release ...

Connie Boulware, of Houston, opens up half her duplex as a “hub house” to residents forced out of their homes by hurricanes or other disasters. She wishes Harris County officials were better-prepared ...

The Public Health Watch serial podcast “Fumed,” which profiles two politically conservative residents of a Texas community besieged by pollution, has won a Barlett and Steele award for investigative ...

Krystal Nice has been diagnosed with several mental-health conditions and has struggled to gain approval of monthly disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. Credit: Michael ...

Lynda Smith has been living with epilepsy for almost two decades and struggled for years to get her seizures under control. She’s been uninsured ever since moving back to Texas and can’t qualify for ...

Maria Alanis hands her mother, Isabel, a flower outside their home in Brownsville, Texas. Maria has been a full-time caregiver since her mother was diagnosed with dementia in 2018. Credit: Miguel ...

Rosie Brown, executive director at East Carroll Community Action Agency in Lake Providence, La., said people are still struggling to make ends meet in the Delta. “We still have people who are working ...