As a rural hospital in Crocket struggles with the cost of indigent and other unpaid care, a torn community weighs how to keep ...

Projects on unchecked air pollution and life without health insurance were honored in multiple journalism contests.

One of the nation’s few lead smelters is just outside Los Angeles and wants to renew its operating permit. But nearby ...

Retired coal miner Mark McCowan reviews an X-ray of his diseased lungs at his home in Pounding Mill, Virginia. McCowan has progressive massive fibrosis, the worst stage of black lung disease. Credit: ...

Suzanne, who asked that only her first name be used, heads inside a new addiction treatment clinic in Inverness, Florida, in December to pick up her methadone prescription. Credit: Stephanie Colombini ...

Florida public radio station WSUF explores the potential impact on opioid addiction treatment if the state were to approve Medicaid expansion, and how Medicaid unwinding is disrupting opioid addiction ...

Public Health Watch and three partners today are launching FencelineData.org, a revolutionary tool that will make it easier for journalists, community advocates, researchers and members of the public ...

Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan oversees the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin on May 26, 2023. , Texas, Friday, May 26, 2023. Credit: Eric Gay/Associated Press BEAUMONT, Texas — ...

Super glue and animal antibiotics are in the medicine cabinets of many farmers and ranchers in Texas — tools of the trade they sometimes use on themselves to avoid a trip to the doctor. It’s not that ...

Data visualization by Ben Vankat. Research by Natasha Gilbert. An EPA survey released in 2021 tested 5,034 public water systems across the U.S. and found potentially unsafe levels of manganese — where ...