This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories by Natalie Krebs include:
Healthcare Systems & Policy
"There used to be a time when license plates had numbers on it for each county based on population and Pulaski County was one and Jefferson County and Mississippi County were two and three."
This story was published in partnership with Mother Jones and The Fuller Project. Support for this reporting was provided by the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism National Health Journalism Fellowship.
Home designs imported to the Arctic from elsewhere are contributing to health problems that disproportionately affect Alaska Natives.
A teenage boy left at a hospital in December 2019 triggered 11Alive’s investigation into child abandonment. His mom says there’s a lot we don’t know about that day.
Black Oklahomans are 50% more likely than white Oklahomans to die from maternity-related complications. Black babies in Oklahoma are almost 2.5 times more likely than white babies to die before their first birthday.
Faced with daunting gaps in water and sewer systems, some Alaska Native communities are thinking small.
While progress to address poor birth outcomes among Black Oklahomans has been slow, women are taking action themselves.
That state’s new drug reform is keeping users out of jail — but getting them help for addictions has been elusive.
The Cook County state’s attorney recently learned her former physical trainer is addicted to heroin and has been in and out of jail for it.