Jesse Merrick was living in Alabama in 2017 when the Thomas Fire swallowed up his mother’s house in Southern California. Merrick, then a healthy sportscaster in his 20s, was on the next plane to help ...

On a cool spring evening in 2017, Law Professor Jennifer Oliva (an author of this piece) received a harrowing phone call from a stranger. “They are going to kill me,” said a man we’ll call Brian. A ...

In early January, a wave of immigration arrests in California’s Central Valley sparked fear across the state. Those real arrests spurred false reports of raids in cities like Oakland, heightening ...

A new rulemaking by the Biden administration seeks to lessen the harmful effects of abortion bans by protecting certain health data from being used to prosecute both clinicians and patients. But in ...

CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. With the advent of a second Trump administration and majority conservative Congress and Supreme Court, it is unclear whether ...

“You’re not your body—you’re a spirit soul.” I often heard this refrain growing up as an unlikely Hindu in a Black body in Cleveland, Ohio. While this idea may sound foreign to many in the Western ...

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...

Climate change is already driving a global health emergency, with over 540 000 people dying from extreme heat each year and 1 in 12 hospitals worldwide at risk of climate-related shutdowns, warns a ...

Donald Trump’s policies have caused and will continue to cause large-scale death. According to Dr. Brooke Nichols, a professor at Boston University School of Public Health who oversees a running ...

State lawmakers passed a bill this week to protect patients’ digital health information from online trackers, hoping to provide additional cover to women seeking abortions in New York post-Roe v. Wade ...

Digital Media Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: DMS), a leading provider of technology-enabled digital performance advertising solutions connecting consumers and advertisers, announced the launch of Protect ...

Ascension said it’s still investigating, but has yet to find evidence that data was taken from its electronic health record or other clinical systems. “Right now, we don’t know precisely what data was ...