Health

Structural racism and geographic inequity are advancing the global crisis of diabetes, report researchers.

Diabetes rates across the world have been rising steadily since the early 1990s, when this data was first estimated. That trend is only going up.

Photo by Tbel Abuseridze, Unspash Rural pharmacies have long served their communities as multi-service medical clinics, and many have faced …

“Immigrants in states with public insurance restrictions for postpartum immigrants are less likely to receive postpartum care.”…

Smoke from Canada’s worst wildfire season once again drifted across the border into the U.S., prompting another round of air quality alerts.

As COVID and other factors decimate nursing profession, a Providence high school trains students to start their careers as young as 14.

Despite the presence of vaccines, excess deaths in year two of the COVID pandemic actually increased in rural areas, research finds.

Reviewing areas where the economic costs of gun violence have been most completely measured to see where costs come from and their impact on society.

L.A.’s district attorney just charged a polluting plant with 22 felonies.

FDA approval for Opill could make oral contraception far more accessible—but it’s just one piece of a larger conversation.

As temperatures rise in the US, so does the incidence of heat-related deaths, including heatstroke.

The Journal of Family Psychology recently published an MDRC study that examined the impact of the Child First home visiting program during the pandemic. Findings suggest that Child First was able to adapt to address the needs of families as their lives were upended by COVID-19.