Health

Few truths are as essential to being human as receiving and giving care.At some point in our lives, we all need to be cared for and need to assume the role of caregiver. Children require caregiving…

The two-year Rural Library Fellowship, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Save the Children, is attempting to boost the capacity of libraries and “activate libraries…

Wartime trauma paired with starting over in a new country make getting health care particularly challenging for immigrant refugees. Talking to a doctor or getting prescriptions filled in an unfamiliar…

The study suggests that online sales to kids went unchanged in the months after the law went into effect.

In post-Roe America, the medical and legal stakes associated with losing a pregnancy are high, especially in the 14 states where abortion is now almost entirely outlawed.

Being Black has always been dangerous for pregnant people and infants in the South. And researchers say things are continuing to move in the wrong direction.

Lingering wildfire smoke from Oregon’s Archie Creek fire (Photo by Jan Pytalski, The Daily Yonder) Wildfire smoke travels wherever the win…

“It’s the feeling of loneliness, of needing people and purpose and not getting it which appears to be bad for health.”…

UNICEF and The Rockefeller Foundation teamed up to strengthen community-based primary health systems in Eastern and Southern Africa.

An interdisciplinary group of researchers at Penn State ran computer models on two Philadelphia census tracts. The neighborhood with more vulnerable residents was also hotter.

Positive psychology focuses on science-based ideas about how to increase your happiness and live a satisfying life. Studies are following how school-based interventions affect students.

Over the past year and a half, the United States has reckoned with the pandemic, a breakdown of race relations, rising wealth inequality, the looming threat of climate change and…