Also this week: Social and economic factors take more than a decade off Native American life expectancy.
Healthcare Systems & Policy
Language barriers may be hindering crucial warnings over the dangers of fentanyl for some 70,000 Indigenous Maya-speaking people.
In 1998, the year I was diagnosed with autism, the CDC estimated that 1 in 500 children had a form of autism. Today, education and awareness have shifted those numbers to one in 68 children who are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
The first in a three-part series investigating North Carolina's psychiatric residential treatment facilities, where children with complex behavioral needs are sent for care.
Hospitals in South LA are more likely to divert ambulances and are more likely to be under-resourced and understaffed.
Louisiana's abortion ban affects maternal care, leading to delays and unnecessary cesarean sections, disproportionately impacting Black and low-income women.
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.