Over 2 dozen Philadelphia men shared their experiences with trauma and psychological distress as they worked to rebuild…
Vitamin D has long been known to play essential roles in boosting immune health and protecting the nervous system. New research…
Contrary to popular belief, grief doesn’t unfold in 5 neat stages. Yet, when loss is traumatic, it can take a heavy emotional…
As overall cancer rates in the US decline, childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia continues to rise.
The biggest changes will be to the Medicaid program, which currently covers more than 78 million people. And Congress may…
After a natural disaster, survivors often suffer from prolonged trauma for years to come, particularly in places where mental…
Many cancer survivors struggle with muscle weakness, which can be so profound that they may have difficulties walking up…
Privacy and bias concerns and integration challenges are brakes on the pace of health care systems adopting the technology.
Mental health chatbots promise therapy at your fingertips, but can AI ease anxiety and depression, or are we confusing conversation…
Storm systems, heat waves, bright sunlight, even lightning – for millions of people, weather changes can bring on painful…
Factors like your health status and how hard you exercise can help gauge the risk of wildfire smoke exposure.
Rural hospitals have been closing, putting emergency care further out of reach, but that’s only one of the heightened…
Mass psychogenic illness has happened throughout history, but social media makes it more likely to spread.
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…