Louisiana's abortion ban affects maternal care, leading to delays and unnecessary cesarean sections, disproportionately impacting Black and low-income women.
Healthcare Systems & Policy
While lithium has been in the limelight, Imperial Valley locals have been watching their already strained health care system struggle to provide critical resources.
Will California's Medicaid expansion reach rural, undocumented farmworkers? Limited awareness of the policy change highlights the challenges facing efforts to cover more people.
Waiting on a fix on pulse oximeter inaccuracies among darker-skinner patients; while a new survey reveals growing health care disparities for transgender Americans.
After a major injury, every minute can affect a patient’s chance of survival. In some parts of the country, help can be far away.
An investigation finds that thousands die from preventable trauma annually, with large geographic disparities and access to trauma care.
Dallas-Fort Worth is the fourth largest metro area in the country, but injured patients here don’t have access to the same level of trauma care as the Austin and San Antonio metros.
The Dallas Morning News and San Antonio Express-News examined why so many Americans bleed to death from traumatic injuries they could have survived. Here’s what we learned
After injuring his arm while working with a power tool, Scott Mussey had only minutes before he bled to death. Emergency responders and the nearest trauma hospital were still too far away.
An innovative prehospital blood transfusion program in South Texas aims to save the lives of more hemorrhaging patients.