Before Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, almost one-quarter of New Orleans residents lived below the poverty line, 20 percent lacked health insurance, and rates of infant mortality and chronic disease were among the highest in the US. Charity Hospital, one of the oldest public...

Plague, which devastated Europe in the Middle Ages, has now been reported in Colorado. HIV, unknown before the 1980s, has killed almost 40 million people, and in the 21st century, the United States has already been threatened by SARS, H1N1, and MERS. Around the world, the struggle against other...

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, a three-part, six-hour documentary series directed by award-winning filmmaker Barak Goodman and executive produced by Ken Burns, tells the comprehensive story of cancer from its first description in an ancient Egyptian scroll to the gleaming laboratories of...