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Over a 20-year period, a ban could lower health care costs among all adult smokers by about $1.62 billion, a recent study found.
An official state committee concluded that 28-year-old Amber Nicole Thurman's death was “preventable,” and the hospital’s delay in performing an abortion had a “large” impact on her passing.
Some people are more shocked over a word than the fact that gay and bisexual men of color continue to contract HIV at alarming rates.
Roxsana Hernandez suffered beatings and untreated dehydration before her death in May, an independent autopsy concludes.
Lawyers for the family of Roxsana Hernandez have filed a complaint holding federal immigration agencies and contractors responsible for her death while in custody.
Leaders of Partners In Health, the international public health nonprofit, write about the danger of not funding PEPFAR, a program that's saved 25 million lives and prevented millions of HIV infections.
Roxsana Hernandez died this spring in ICE custody. The Transgender Law Center says she faced mistreatment here.
A federal judge’s ruling in Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra. is a deeply flawed decision that flies in the face of sound public health policy, according to the American Medical Association's president.
Derby teams nationwide are wearing '#DoItFor57' this weekend in honor of 15-year-old trans man Sam Taub.
Crackdowns and denials don't work, writes Alex Cheves. We have to work around reality.
The findings conflict with an independent autopsy by the Transgender Law Center saying the trans woman died from abuse.
"I’m urging all of us to use this Pride Month to assess our health and take the right steps to protect ourselves," she writes.
Officials' "deliberate indifference" caused Layleen Cubilette-Polanco to die of an epileptic seizure, says a suit filed by her mother.
When Elliot Morales killed Mark Carson in New York City in 2013, he acted out of hate. But society had already failed the convicted felon, says the law student who watched the hate crime happen.
"The government cannot excuse its indirect censorship of political speech simply by declaring the disfavored speech is 'false,'" the judge wrote.
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two Texas women who lost their lives after doctors delayed treating miscarriages, which fall into a gray area under the state’s strict abortion laws that prohibit doctors from ending the heartbeat of a fetus.
