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…
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…