Minnesota's new law requires Medicaid to pay for home births, including paying nurses and midwives the same rate as doctors.
Access to quality trauma care varies across populations, with some facing greater barriers due to systemic biases, healthcare inequalities, and socioeconomic challenges. Marginalized groups — ...
SOUTH THAT WILL BE UP ABOVE 60 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON. WELL, HOW ABOUT THIS NEW STUDY SHOWING THAT LIFE EXPECTANCY IN THE UNITED STATES, IT VARIES BY AS MUCH AS 20 YEARS DEPENDING ON RACE, ETHNICITY ...
A heat wave can turn a classroom without proper cooling into an oven. Excessive heat can interfere with the learning process of any child—but in the U.S., the students who are most affected are ...
For some marginalized communities the second Trump term is fraught with fears over personal safety. In Minneapolis, one organization is helping neighbors with de-escalation services and gun training.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...
(Editor’s note: The federal government has removed several web pages linked to in this brief. Where possible, links to archived versions have been inserted.) Data are the cornerstone of public health ...