Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images When U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle tossed out the federal government’s transportation mask mandate on Monday, she relied in part on her ...

Defending COVID-19 policies against legal challenges, government officials relied heavily on Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a 1905 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a smallpox vaccine mandate ...

The evidence that ultra-processed foods are bad for us is piling up. But efforts to reduce their role in our diets face a big ...

Underpinned by the principals of basing decisions on sound science, the need to improve public health and avoiding unintended ...