For many older adults facing fixed incomes, high living costs and dwindling government benefits, a remote life on four wheels seems the only one tenable.
Community & Public Health
The first 1,000 days of nutrition can set a child’s course for life or perpetuate a cycle of poverty.
Asthma takes a heavy toll on Kentucky families, but efforts to reduce its triggers have languished for years.
For Louisville children with asthma, missed school days can compound the struggle to stay healthy. An investigation examines the disease’s toll on attendance and learning.
Asthma’s toll extends far beyond the struggle to breathe. In Kentucky, medical bills, missed work and lost school days add up to an estimated $1.7 billion a year.
Iowa has the nation’s second-highest cancer rate. Patients, farmers and providers question links to farm chemicals and nitrate-polluted water.
One man’s fight to commemorate the 9/11 health disasters that, for many responders, have never ended.
At Corcoran State Prison, a 12-week program called SAGE helps incarcerated men confront trauma and grief, filling a gap California’s prison system leaves to grant-funded nonprofits.
Columbus City Council will explore radon legislation next year after a Dispatch investigation spurred test-kit demand, school testing and a library radon monitor program.
Ohio lawmakers are drafting a bipartisan bill for school radon testing, remediation funds and a $2,000 mitigation tax credit after a Dispatch probe exposed state failures.