Health

“…if multiple generations get different exposures, then eventually there’s an amplification or compounded effect on some diseases.”…

Close to half of those who die by suicide saw a primary care doctor within a month of their death.

School nurses can play a key role in identifying students who are at risk for chronic absenteeism, according to a new study.

“Climate change is killing a lot of people, nobody is counting it, and nobody is moving in the direction of counting it.”…

Making the overdose reversal medication naloxone more widely available and providing more education on the dangers of fentanyl are being considered.

People of color, young people and those with low incomes tend to benefit most from telehealth abortion.

Standards are vague, and the IRS, which is tasked with enforcement, hasn’t provided much oversight.

Over the past decade, many rural hospitals have struggled to stay afloat, but even among the surviving hospitals, labor and delivery service…

In 2019, the Virginia-based Danville Regional Foundation (DRF) set a new strategic vision—to help more people believe in the transformation of the region and embrace their role in achieving it.…

I’ve been a school social worker for the last 15 years, so I am acutely aware of our nation’s mounting youth mental health crisis. I know that robust …

Efforts are underway to alleviate a shortage of a new RSV immunization for children younger than 5. But families and doctors still face challenges.

More than a year after the Supreme Court found there is no fundamental right to get an abortion, 21 states have laws in effect that ban abortion well before fetal…