We asked doctors, scientists, public health experts and health advocates to take a look back - what would they redo, if they could?

The intervention was the earliest action yet known in an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that concealed how many nursing home residents died in the pandemic.

The National Institutes of Health will fund researchers to track people's recovery, and will host a biospecimen bank.

Without more people of color pursuing doctoral degrees, the talent pool will stay predominantly white.

The wintry weather that has battered the southern US and parts of Europe could be a counterintuitive effect of the climate crisis.

Lengthy battle over regulators' use of confidential data ends in Montana courtroom.

Today, the Biden Administration releases a presidential memo on scientific integrity and evidence-based policymaking, setting the stage for the administration's efforts to build back from the Trump administration's unprecedented assault on science and strengthen protections for science and scientists across the government.

The voice of environmental justice, once lonely in the wilderness of systemic racism, is now helping shape President Biden's cabinet with nominees pledging to restore environmental and public health protections dismantled by the previous administration.

Despite a long list of supremely qualified people who could inspire a whole new generation of scientists, the glass ceiling in American science remains intact.

Scientists praise US president's pick of Alondra Nelson, a specialist in bioethics and social inequality.

Nature's guide tracks the US president's appointees who matter most to science.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. will bring with him the largest team of climate change experts ever assembled in the White House, and action on global warming is expected quickly.

Under Biden, genome-sequencing pioneer Eric Lander may become the most powerful scientist in US history. But he comes with some baggage.

Researchers found that the variant originated in California and showed up in more than half of samples tested last week by researchers in Los Angeles.

He has selected geneticist Eric Lander, who helped map the human genome, to lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The president-elect detailed plans for an initial effort to fight the coronavirus and a subsequent one to address economic recovery.

The virus has killed American Indians at especially high rates, robbing tribes of precious bonds and repositories of language and tradition.