A former mill city of roughly 43,000 people in Rhode Island is a testing ground for a new treatment program designed to bend the rising curve of opioid overdose deaths.
Health Insurance and Costs
Top government officials are pitching budget increases and a series of potentially transformative policy proposals to curb long psychiatric-related hospitalizations.
Nebraska’s groundwater is becoming increasingly laced with nitrate. And small towns, cities and rural Nebraskans are getting stuck paying the tab.
Chief health equity officers are growing more common. But experts say companies need to empower them
But the people in these prominent positions — and the ones hiring them — say they’re still defining the role, and in some cases, fighting for buy-in and resources from others in their organizations.
Experts fear interruption of important, routine care could cause earlier deaths.
Choctaw Nation and other tribal nations have made big investments in tribally run mental health care in the wake of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
There's little discussion of the impact on fertility, and the broader lack of reproductive and sexual health care for young people living with this complex disease.
Many Hispanics are being left in the dark about long Covid. This is what some patients have learned through self-advocacy. .
As the waitlist for a state hospital bed in Texas continues to grow, mental health leaders remain dedicated to the widespread adoption of a strategy known as “Eliminate the Wait.”
Santa Barbara County plans to add another co-response team and reopen its crisis stabilization unit as a locked facility.