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The seal for the Department of Veterans Affairs stands at the door of its headquarters, in Washington, DC, on February 20, 2025.
Governance

Caring for Incarcerated U.S. Veterans Post-9/11

by Elena Every

A bill introduced in March could address a significant gap in mental health care for U.S. service members, but remains under negotiation

A biohazard sign is displayed in the biocontainment facility of the Spiez Laboratory, in Spiez, Switzerland, on June 8, 2022.
Governance

Biosecurity's Blind Spot 

by Sunny Jha

Coordinating responses across all levels of government could help prevent biological accidents and safeguard national security in the face of biothreats

Governance

Cyberattacks Hit U.S. Health Care Hardest

by John Riggi
Technology in the Interventional Radiology room is shown at the newly constructed Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center hospital, in San Diego, California, on April 17, 2017.
Governance

The Opioid Use Treatment Young Americans Can't Access

by Sam Nichols
Silvia Martinez sits in her kitchen with her daughter Alize’ urn on August 10, 2026 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Alizé passed in 2022 to an overdose. She was 19 years old.
Governance

New U.S. Vaccine Order Creates Confusion Amid Measles Surge

by Luciana Borio, Phil Krause
U.S. President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order regarding vaccine flexibility, in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, DC, on August 10, 2026.
Governance

A Call to End the Open-Border Policy for U.S. Wildlife Trade

by Neil M. Vora
Livestock roam a field as an outbreak of New World screwworm rose to 15 cases across in two Texas counties, in Rocksprings, Texas, on June 22, 2026.
Governance

United States Pulls Funding for South Africa, Threatening HIV Defenses

by Emily Bass, Nomfundo Eland, Thomas McHale, Karen Naimer, Yvette Raphael
A boy holds his grandmother's hand after taking his medication at Nkosi's Haven, which provides residential care for low-income HIV-positive mothers and their children, in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 28, 2014.
Governance

Why U.S.-Zambia Foreign Aid Negotiations Should Continue

by William Moss
A home-based caregiver visits an HIV/AIDS patient in her home in Matero township, Lusaka, Zambia, on April 17, 2012.
Governance

Ebola Recalls Why the U.S. Needs a Foreign Health Service

by Matthew D. Brown
Two children of an American Ebola patient look through a window at their father in the isolation ward, at the Charite hospital in Berlin, Germany, on May 21, 2026.
Poverty

Cuba's Health Care Buckles Under Fuel Blockade

by Arachu Castro
Two women cook dinner after Cuba's national electric grid collapsed for the second time in a week, amid the U.S.-imposed oil blockade, in Havana, Cuba, on March 21, 2026.
Governance

Hantavirus Outbreak Tests Global Health Law Amid WHO Crisis

by Alexandra L. Phelan
Civil guard members approach the cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, on a motorboat, at the port of Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife, Spain, on May 11, 2026.
Governance

Argentina, the WHO, and an Exit Door That Doesn't Exist 

by Sara Al Dallal
Argentinian President Javier Milei speaks at an event, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 29, 2026.