Provider shortages, insurance barriers and uneven access leave many Central Texas mothers struggling to find care.

Like many miners with advanced black lung disease, Tim Balthis looks healthy, sitting with his wife Fran on their porch in Pound, Virginia. But a scan of his lungs shows so much fibrotic tissue a ...

In 2005, Southeast Texas witnessed one of the worst-executed mass evacuations in American history. Have disaster response ...

Many cancer patients face treatment delays of a month or longer … More than a third of U.S. counties are now “maternity ...

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Plastic used in food packaging is most common type found in liver…workers exposed to pesticides at higher risk for Lou Gehrig ...

Radiologist Brandon Crum scrutinizes images of coal miners’ lungs in his clinic in Coal Run Village, Kentucky. All the lungs shown here are riddled with fibrotic tissue, the breath-stealing signature ...

Tommie Siebert's family experienced a weeks-long interruption in Medicaid coverage after her husband Zachary's benefits were terminated earlier this summer. Tommie, pictured at the family's apartment ...

More hospitals could reduce services, cut staff or close…discrimination tied to fewer health screenings, more emergency ...

Nearly two decades had passed since the storm. For many, the memory of what had happened on Goat Island had largely vanished into the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, what residents remembered that year were ...