After records requests were denied, a reporter used lawsuits and monitor reports to expose severe understaffing and failures in Illinois' prison health care — despite a court-ordered consent decree.

“Let’s imagine that we are all here together in a circle. We are all inside it, no one is left out, and we want unity — this is your group.” With those calming words, Maricela Acevedo starts a regular ...

Three years ago, a research team in Georgia mapped a stark pattern. Across the South, the epicenter of the nation’s HIV epidemic, clinics offering HIV treatment and preventive care were largely ...

As Sacramento grows, the city struggles to house all its people. Rising average monthly rent often exceeds what residents can pay. Black people are often more susceptible to housing instability.

Cada una vive una realidad distinta. Hay quienes se sientan en el sofá y se conectan después de una larga jornada de trabajo… Otras atienden la llamada desde el celular mientras resuelven asuntos de l ...

CROW RESERVATION — When doctors in Billings told Ursula Rides Horse-Russell she had Stage 2 breast cancer, her mind went blank. She had buried her 34-year-old son two days earlier. She couldn’t ...

When Nibedita was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 40, she did not tell her mother or her mother-in-law, who lived in India. That decision, made from love, isolated her. Both women, beloved ...

The rapid expansion of supersize data centers to power AI may not seem like a big story for health journalists. The growing public backlash has focused on the environmental impact: the massive use of ...

For more than 20 years, Adela León, originally from Putla in Oaxaca, Mexico, has worked in agricultural fields across Washington State and California’s Central Valley. “In grapes, peaches, apricots, ...

As progressive as it seems our society has become, we still avoid discussing periods and menstrual health, neglecting the fact that over 800 million people menstruate daily. Pretending that periods ...

South Dakota is one of the most sparsely populated states in the nation, which puts many remote residents at the mercy of the open road and a strained rural health care system in order to maintain ...

Three months after receiving a clean bill of health from her cardiologist, marathon runner Dawn Roberts was participating in a 5K with her son when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her chest. “It was ...