Time, distance and staffing pose challenges to health care in rural North Dakota
May 9, 2024
North Dakota turns to telemedicine and community education to cope with heart and health care challenges in rural areas.
May 9, 2024
North Dakota turns to telemedicine and community education to cope with heart and health care challenges in rural areas.
May 13, 2024
The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska aims to improve healthy food access, reopen trade routes, care for the environment – and change the way farming works.
May 16, 2024
As the Ioway move away from conventional monocropping, their Kansas reservation has become an example of farming without herbicides and pesticides.
May 21, 2024
Statistically, West Virginia is among the least-healthy states in the nation. Breaking that stranglehold requires a massive cultural shift. Families in the rural town of Rainelle are trying to do just that.
May 23, 2024
West Virginia has some of the highest rates of chronic illness in the nation, with doctors and hospitals few and far between. Community health workers fill that gap.
May 29, 2024
In a state where mountains and winding roads can make getting emergency services and health care hard, Kentuckians turn to technology and new training for help.
May 31, 2024
The mountainous and largely rural areas of eastern Kentucky remain on the road to recovery after historic and deadly flooding in 2022.
Jun 3, 2024
While health care in rural America is a challenge everywhere, many of the challenges are more extreme in Alaska.
Jun 7, 2024
Despite all the challenges inherent to living in Alaska, particularly those related to health care, the positives make it overwhelmingly worth it for most residents.