Many healthcare providers report that since January 2025, they’ve seen a surge in missed pediatric appointments, delayed preventive care, and sick or injured kids going without treatment. Immigration ...

The number of preteens — ages 8 to 12 — who die by suicide in the United States each year is relatively small. But the total in 2025 was 194 — the most since at least 2001, according to preliminary da...

The number of preteens — ages 8 to 12 — who die by suicide in the United States each year is relatively small. But the total in 2025 was 194 — the most since at least 2001, according to preliminary…

Black women living in states with abortion bans were more likely to have preterm babies, according to a study published this month.

Editor's note: This is the first report in an ongoing series.The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled. Her pregnancy was ectopic, no longer viable, and could ha...

Editor’s note: This is the first report in an ongoing series. The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled. Her pregnancy was ectopic, no longer viable, and could h...

Billion Dollar Baby Bump: A States Newsroom 50-state investigation examining the tax records of more than 1,600 crisis pregnancy center organizations nationwide and state and federal budgets found the...

Billion Dollar Baby Bump: A States Newsroom 50-state investigation examining the tax records of more than 1,600 crisis pregnancy center organizations nationwide and state and federal budgets found the...

More states are requiring their Medicaid programs and health insurance companies to cover non-opioid pain medications as an alternative to opioids, which can be cheaper for insurers but also more addi...

State Medicaid agencies are struggling to pay for an intensive therapy for children with autism — and looming federal Medicaid cuts are likely to make the problem worse.Parents of children and young…

Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms. The woman had suffered multiple b...

Medicaid cuts in the massive tax and spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law earlier this month will worsen mental health disparities in rural America, experts say, as patients lose ...

The lawsuit, filed July 1 in federal court, alleges that the flooding in Shiloh continues to worsen as rainwater erodes the land around US-84.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors could have implications well beyond the case.

President Donald Trump’s budget proposal, provisions in the giant tax and spending bill under consideration in the U.S. Senate and delays in federal grant renewal notices are causing troubling uncerta...

In South Carolina and other states that have not expanded Medicaid, many patients lack health coverage.

Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in Black Americans. Treatment is out of reach for many.

After years of pressure over lost or untested sexual assault kits, a growing number of states are adopting systems to track the kits — giving survivors a way to follow their evidence through the justi...

Across the country, a quiet change in public defense is giving people something the traditional system often doesn't: a path forward. Client advocates are helping people avoid incarceration, access tr...

Congress is considering ending funding for a program that gives lower-income people aged 55 or older on-the-job training.

Medical experts are dismayed over a federal report’s claim that kids are overprescribed asthma medications, saying it minimizes how many lives the drugs save.

More American children and teens die from firearms than any other cause, but there are more deaths — and wider racial disparities — in states with more permissive gun policies, according to a new stud...

Data sovereignty is important amid the health disparities seen in tribal people, rooted in forced assimilation over more than a century.

In its bid to eliminate federal diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives, the Trump administration has terminated community health grants and closed federal offices that support state effo...

States and localities are hoping to address the threat of cyberattacks, but cuts to federal resources and an overall lack of preparedness could weaken their efforts.

Communities across the nation are losing federal funds that helped pay for environmental justice efforts designed to mitigate the health effects of pollution and other hazards on historically underser...