Plastic waste risks include heart disease, cancer and asthma ... Physician practices are paid less to treat Black, Hispanic ...

Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, ...

The number of women who had tubal ligations — a type of surgery that permanently prevents pregnancy — jumped significantly following the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, a new ...

(From left to right) Public Health Watch reporter Savanna Strott, Univision45 photographer and editor Jeffersonn Castellanos and Univision 45 reporter Ana Bueno at the Lone Star Emmy Awards in Dallas, ...

Maria Alanis holds the hand of her mother, Isabel, in their backyard in Brownsville, Texas. Maria was a full-time dementia caregiver for her mother until she died last month. Credit: Miguel ...

Join us on Tuesday, November 18 for a happy hour benefiting Public Health Watch at The Austin Winery! Come raise a glass with award-winning journalists and help support nonprofit investigative ...

How much money you make, the type of housing you live in and the quality of air you breathe can determine your community-level risk for developing cancer, a new study says. Published in JAMA Network ...

A state amendment addressing rising rates of dementia in Texas passed with overwhelming approval from voters last week, a key victory for Alzheimer’s advocates and the millions of Texans suffering ...

Downtown Houston on a smoggy day. Particulate matter, an ingredient in smog, has been linked to a long list of health effects, including premature death, stroke and breast cancer. Credit: Dave Fehling ...

In the spring of 1977, federal workplace-safety regulators were confronted with a grim government study. Current and former employees of two Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plants in Ohio had been using ...

This is the first of two stories about firefighters’ cancer risks. Ben Brickhouse came to his career as a late bloomer. In December 2003, when he was 41 years old, he took a vacation to Asheville, ...