Drastic cuts to Medicaid and other public health provisions in the new law will mean even less money to rural hospitals,…
A provision in the big legislative package and a related Supreme Court ruling mark the culmination of a strategy to defund…
Medicaid improves access to care for low-wage workers who cannot survive on bare-bone benefits offered by their employers.
In recent years, the majority of stimulant-related overdose deaths have also involved fentanyl or other synthetic opioids.
Creating inclusive communities means not just offering services to people with serious mental illness, but changing negative…
The justices ruled that a key preventive health task force has authority because it is appointed by the Health and Human…
Adriana Smith’s body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don’t capture…
Florida is one of the worst states in the US when it comes to access to affordable dental care – and children are suffering…
The ruling limits the rights of Medicaid patients to choose their own health care provider. It could have consequences far…
The risk of harmful algal blooms can be reduced. The biggest drivers of the increase are farm fertilizer and climate change.
The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically…
There’s no solid evidence that thimerosal harms children. It was removed from almost all vaccines more than 20 years ago…
Public squares, secret gardens and offbeat cafes can offer respite and a sense of community connection, which contribute…
Fluoride varnish, easily and quickly applied to a child’s teeth, is an affordable and effective way to help prevent cavities.
Increasing limits on abortion are boosting demand for contraception. But access to family planning is shrinking in many…
The same tools that companies use to sell products can be used to encourage people to get vaccinated, get a colonoscopy…
Health insurance companies use AI to decide which health care treatment to cover. State laws and federal agencies are now…
A public health researcher explains the signs someone is developing heat exhaustion or heat stroke, and what to do.
Changes to forests, and how close people and their livestock live to them, have changed tick habitats and the risks humans…
Despite funding cuts, political scapegoating and internal tensions, thousands of volunteers came together in the 1980s to…