Advocates are particularly incensed that decision-makers have mostly shuttered schools in the poorest part of town — ...

This is a lot of people not just milking the system but making deliberate economic decisions to exploit a vulnerable ...

In Bakersfield, where Black mothers face some of California's worst maternal health outcomes, doulas are stepping in to fill ...

When Snigdha was diagnosed with diabetes in 2008, she felt betrayed and shocked. "I was thin, did not have a sweet tooth, and ...

Racism is a serious public health issue in the United States, and the use of racial slurs raises bigger questions about ...

The modeling studies predicted that excluding soda and other sweetened beverages would reduce purchases of those items and improve diets. One of the studies also suggested the bans could reduce ...

Blamed in part on climate change, the threat of water ponding in your yard or your basement is growing, a Sun-Times/WBEZ ...

Last year, more than 1,000 families turned to the Sudbury Community Food Pantry for help putting food on the table. Just ...

Eilís O'Neill has covered health for KUOW, an NPR station in Seattle, since 2020. Before that, she worked for almost a decade as a health and environment reporter in Seattle, New York City, and Buenos ...

Racism is a serious public health issue in the United States, and the use of racial slurs raises bigger questions about language and its effects on the health of Black and Hispanic people. Last year, ...

I'm a longtime newspaper reporter, with stints at The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, and Willamette Week, an alternative newsweekly. Now I'm writing for a nonprofit, Marguerite Casey Foundation, ...