In a setback to the pharmaceutical industry, a federal judge has tossed a lawsuit that sought to prevent state governments from importing medicines from Canada. The decision is likely to embolden more states to now consider the approach as they…
From the color of our eyes to our odds of developing cancer, we’re all shaped by the genetic legacy of our ancestors. But a new study in mice provides the clearest evidence yet that acquired traits can be passed down…
A bipartisan group of senators fiercely criticized several prominent telehealth startups for failing to protect sensitive health information, citing an investigation by STAT and The Markup which found dozens of telehealth companies sharing patient data with Facebook, Google and other…
Last week, the New York Times published an opinion essay from economist Paul Krugman on a purported “rural resentment” that has led to the rise of right-wing extremism. Krugman packs a ton of punches into a short article, and misses…
By the time medics arrived, Tyre Nichols was sitting on the ground, handcuffed and propped against a police car. The 29-year-old’s face was bloody and he was groaning in pain. On Jan. 7, after pulling Nichols over for a traffic…
Sage Therapeutics said Monday that U.S. regulators accepted a marketing application for its rapid-acting antidepressant and granted it priority review with a decision date set for early August. The Food and Drug Administration will assess the efficacy and safety of…
Rural America has borne a disproportionately large share of the deaths caused by Covid-19 in the past three years. But after months and years of sharply divergent death rates, rural and urban America have reached a tentative equilibrium, of sorts,…
States are preparing to remove millions of people from Medicaid as protections put in place early in the covid-19 pandemic expire. The upheaval, which begins in April, will put millions of low-income Americans at risk of losing health coverage, threatening…
Growing up in the ski resort town of Mount Shasta, a town of a few thousand people at the merging point of State Highway 89 and I-5, Miranda Connelly is well aware of the paradoxes of life in rural Northern…
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers across the state of Wisconsin are going through a crisis amid low staffing and underfunding. According to the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health, nearly 41% of EMS in the state are staffed by six or…