Many of us might dream of moving to the countryside to escape all the demands of life in the city. With less traffic, little to no light pollution, and fresh air, living in the country sure sounds a ...

The sidelining of female workers was outlined in Project 2025, which calls for anything dedicated to tracking gender equality ...

July 30 marked 60 years of the nation’s most popular health care programs, Medicaid and Medicare, which were signed into law in 1965. In most years, the birthday of these critical programs is an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. This essay is the first in a four-part series I’m calling Rural Health ...

Let’s go to inner city New York, where a teacher is using rooftop gardens to help her students learn about seeds and plants and other growing things.

Essentia’s mobile mammography trucks have added additional locations across the rural health provider’s footprint, bringing ...

Rural workers are willing to work. The U.S. has spent billions to bring broadband to rural communities—but many of the people it’s meant to help still aren’t logging on. Unless governments focus on ...

There is a dentist in Mitchell County, North Carolina who often gets paid in art. Artists who don’t have health insurance will offer something like a painting or a sculpture in exchange for dental ...

Despite higher rates of chronic disease in rural areas vs. their urban counterparts, rural America's health care infrastructure is collapsing. Since 2010, about 150 rural hospitals have closed or been ...

Hurricanes, tornadoes and other extreme weather do not distinguish between urban and rural boundaries. But when a disaster strikes, there are big differences in how well people are able to respond and ...