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Many children may lose public health insurance and nutrition assistance benefits under proposed changes to U.S. immigration policy.

The addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census may put almost one in 10 U.S. households and nearly 45 million people at greater risk of not being counted.

Sleep may be as important to health in old age as diet and exercise. Numerous studies have shown that sleeping too much or too little is associated with mortality among older adults.

The number of U.S. children living in counties with high drug overdose death rates has increased sharply since 2000.

Family planning has often been called the key to sustainable development. Yet, more than 214 million women still have an unmet need for family planning—they want to limit or space their pregnancies but are not using contraceptives.

Senior officials from Burkina Faso outlined their commitments to achieving universal health coverage and called on members of the new Burkina Faso Reference Group to help them secure additional resources.