Smuggled animals are coming into focus as possible hosts for New World screwworm. The flesh-eating parasite began infesting U ...

President Trump's transactional foreign policy is challenging traditional alliances and global power dynamics, for good and ...

If you’ve never heard of intrinsic capacity, you’re not alone, but it’s becoming the preferred way to measure and assess human ageing, reports The New York Times. Its goal is a single metric that ...

For the first time in a year, the U.S.-Mexico border partly reopened to cattle imports following a screwworm infestation ...

Government officials say people from Ebola-affected countries will continue to be banned from entering Canada for another 30 ...

The World Health Organization estimates that in 2026 nearly 11 million people will contract the virus that causes measles.

Mexico has resumed live cattle exports to the United States after they were halted for nearly two years by restrictions ...

OP-ED. Scientific data and field observations confirm the harmful effects of addictive digital platforms on the physical and ...

There is no treatment for measles, but vaccines have been proven to be safe and effective at preventing the disease.

Fatal drug overdoses have plunged since the pandemic – which the Trump administration has celebrated. But the headlines hide new problems and disturbing trends.

On Monday, the US government will reopen part of the southern border to Mexican livestock following a screwworm outbreak. It has reignited a decades-old debate in the cattle industry.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...