EMILY BAUMGAERTNER

In a Rhode Island city, AR-15-style weapons at a police firing range comprise the soundtrack to the school day, inuring children to the threat of...

Gun suicides increased from prepandemic rates in all racial and ethnic groups, but the degree of change differed drastically.

The number of procedures rose to roughly 13,000 in 2019 from about 4,550 in 2016 as access broadened, researchers estimated.

Thirty years of progress in decreasing drowning deaths in the United States appears to have plateaued, and disparities in deaths among some racial groups have...

Noise is a vast — and largely unrecognized — threat to your health. The Times is collecting personal stories and noise measurements from readers like...

Noise can damage your heart as well as your hearing, but there are ways to measure your exposure and reduce your risk.

In a tight-knit town already skeptical of the government, the lack of concrete information, and the open-ended nature of the crisis, undergird anxiety.

Learning delays and regressions were most severe in developing countries and among children from low-income backgrounds. And students still haven’t caught up.

Nearly all Americans over 65 got their initial Covid vaccines. But that immunity is waning, and this time, the government is offering far less support...

Pregnant women are more likely to die of a drug overdose than the average woman of childbearing age, but less likely to be accepted for...