The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new European commission aimed at providing health sector solutions to what it called one of the defining health challenges of our time: climate ...

The 2025 Lancet Countdown on health and climate change highlights the accelerating human toll of climate inaction and documents record heat-related deaths, widespread food insecurity, and intensifying ...

As temperatures rise and weather patterns grow unpredictable, the risk of stroke is no longer confined to genetics or ...

The US health care system significantly contributes to climate change while increasingly facing its adverse consequences. Despite this dual challenge, policy efforts to incentivize carbon reduction ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront series titled “New Challenges for Health Care.” The series of articles focuses on emerging issues that are facing decision makers at provider ...

Theresa Gaffney is the lead Morning Rounds writer and reports on health care, new research, and public policy, with a particular interest in mental health, gender-affirming care, and LGBTQ+ patient ...

On Sept. 9, 2020, 7.7 million San Francisco Bay Area residents had the collective breath knocked out of them. That morning, they looked out their windows in horror as the sun disappeared behind an ...

As climate change accelerates and global temperatures continue to rise, a new randomized clinical trial provides compelling evidence that one of the most powerful climate solutions may be on our ...

Nicholas St. Fleur covered the intersection of race, medicine, and the life sciences. He hosted STAT’s health equity podcast, Color Code. Vanessa Kerry, a pulmonary and critical care physician, ...

Urgent, decisive action is needed on how communities will pay for the costs of adapting to climate change, a major new report ...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin clashed with Democrats over the agency’s approach to climate change ...