On Wednesday, September 20, Nicole Horseherder was awarded the Heinz Award for the Environment and will receive an unrestricted $250,000 for her work as an energy justice leader working to protect the water, air, and land of the Navajo Nation…
Researchers say they’ve been able to measure recovery from treatment-resistant depression through brain scans — a crucial step toward quantifying the impact of therapies on a condition whose progress is notoriously difficult to measure objectively. And that’s thanks to generative…
Poverty would decrease by 31% if seven safety net programs were fully funded and had full participation from eligible candidates, according to new research. The report from the Urban Institute says poverty would decline from 14.7% to 10.1%. Further, child…
Charity Hodge had mixed feelings when she spotted a Facebook post announcing that her longtime primary care doctor was ready to retire after decades of serving their rural community of LaFayette, Ala. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, no!’” Hodge…
The health of rural communities has been declining for decades. From 1999-2019 age-adjusted death rates for 10 leading causes of death were higher in rural areas, including heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries, stroke, diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer disease, respiratory illness…
Everyone over the age of 6 months should get the latest covid-19 booster, a federal expert panel recommended Tuesday after hearing an estimate that universal vaccination could prevent 100,000 more hospitalizations each year than if only the elderly were vaccinated…
Two playgrounds border the Recovering Hope Treatment Center for addiction that sits at the end of a gravel road in eastern Minnesota’s rural Kanabec County. A meeting room inside is furnished with rocking chairs and baby walkers. And there are…
Growing up on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, tribal member Burt Dillabaugh didn’t see a lot of people involved and working in the sciences. “Unfortunately, in rural communities, there’s only so many different types of jobs,” he…
The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it had greenlit two updated Covid-19 booster shots in people as young as 6 months old, triggering a process that could see the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines become available in doctors’ offices, clinics,…
As a fourth-year ophthalmology resident at Emory University School of Medicine, Riley Lyons’ biggest responsibilities include triage: When a patient comes in with an eye-related complaint, Lyons must make an immediate assessment of its urgency. He often finds patients have…