Health

The care at Landmark of Louisville Rehabilitation and Nursing was abysmal when state inspectors filed their survey report of the Kentucky facility on July 3, 2021. Residents wandered the halls…

The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the shortcomings within the country’s social safety net— especially in the case of food security. The drastic rise in unemployment, lost access to…

As you get older, you’re at higher risk of severe infection and your immunity declines faster after vaccination.

Local governments are increasingly buying – and forgiving – their residents’ medical debt.

Navigating healthcare can often be an intimidating experience for many of us. The clinical environment, the impersonal interactions, and the uncertainty about whether our needs will be understood and respected…

People often think of leprosy as a bygone disease, relevant primarily in biblical times. But in fact, it is still present in more than 120 countries, and the US is seeing an uptick in cases.

After the 1996 Dickey Amendment halted federal spending on research into firearms risks, a small group of academics pressed on, with little money or political support, to document the nation’s growing gun violence problem and start to understand what can be done to curb the public health crisis.

A no-questions-asked, self-serve food pantry more than doubled its distribution rates between March 2020 and November 2021 compared to the same period in 2018-19. The University of Chicago Medicine’s Feed1st pantry…

Though abortion has been debated in US politics for decades, the evidence is clear: access to legal abortion improves women’s lives.

Once available, Opill will be the most effective form of nonprescription birth control on the market. But you should still speak with your health care provider about any questions.

Vaccine skepticism, and the broader medical mistrust and far-reaching anxieties it reflects, is not just a fringe position in the 21st century.

When the board of a foundation dedicated to innovation in healthcare delivery asked, “What could we achieve with advocacy?”, the question changed the entire trajectory of its philanthropy. Executive Director…