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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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