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"We're going to be making sure that [members of Congress] know their constituents care about this stuff," said one industry representative.

One in five children in the developing world misses out on routine immunizations. How do you recruit them? With town criers, public notices — and even a call to action emblazoned on a garment.

The number of people sleeping in New York's shelters has been slow to fall after hitting a record high of 59,000 last year. Advocates for the homeless say more New Yorkers are living on the streets.

Dorothy Okatch can stop a towering hoopster in his tracks. Now studying to become a social worker, she hopes to have the same impact off the court, "to make my call on what's going to happen next."

Insulin can be expensive even with insurance, and millions of people need it to stay alive. Proponents of the biohacking movement say it should be possible to make it safely and cheaply.

What are the chances somebody with Ebola will fly to the U.S. by late September? One team of scientists says it could be as high as 18 percent. And the risk is even higher for the U.K.

Some say a vaunted attempt to improve the quality of colleges is dead on arrival. Let's find out why.

Just getting a measles vaccine to a child in Pakistan was once an impossible dream. Despite many obstacles, health workers have made great progress in stopping infectious diseases.

A proposed U.S.-Asia trade pact calls for incorporating the issue wildlife trafficking. The goal is to slow the poaching of endangered animals such as elephants, tigers and rhinos.

The deep-rooted history and current disrepair of the aging Alabama bus fleet continue to affect its predominantly black riders.