North Memorial Health is closing its clinic in downtown Minneapolis, funneling their resources instead into their locations in the suburbs outside of Minneapolis.

A recent study reveals that breast cancer patients at practices participating in the 340B  program are 25% more likely to be prescribed outpatient drugs.

A new study reveals the dangerous effects that prenatal PFAS exposure has on people later in life.

Alabama has seen a staggering amount of labor and delivery departments close in the last year.

40% of Evansville, Indiana, neighborhoods are in food deserts with limited access to fresh, nutritious, and affordable food.

Lead in the water of 72 Illinois communities is reaching levels so high that officials are notifying cities and looking into ways to act.

A lack of access to vital cancer screenings in Georgia is making a splash in the state legislature.

A recent op-ed out of Tennessee displays the way that patients are continually let down by the 340B program designed to protect them.

Gardeners in Panacea, Florida are banding together to provide accessible, nutritious, and affordable food amidst a food desert.

Utility costs in Delaware are expected to increase in order to combat per-and-polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

When a Bar Harbor hospital announced the closure of their obstetric care department because of declining birth rates, the nurses of the department staged a public meeting encouraging their lawmakers to make an investment in rural maternity healthcare.

Small independent grocery stores allow rural communities to thrive without the influence of big retail providers. Often, these small grocers are the only thing that keep these communities from being classified as food deserts.

A recent study conducted by the National Pharmaceutical Council examined the shortcomings of the 340B system, highlighting how geography, facilities, and market power affect the windfalls collected by 340B hospitals.

A recent study investigated the effects of water privatization, or the transfer of public water systems into private companies, as a potential force for water access equality.

Due to faulty technology, Colorado has higher food assistance processing times than many other states, ranking in the bottom five states in the country.

A recent OBGYN closure in Minneapolis, MN, brings attention to the problem that also plagues rural maternity care: maternity care providers are pouring their money into whiter, wealthier suburbs while abandoning urban and rural patients.

Rural maternity wards see fewer births every year, meaning many of them are on the chopping block for large hospital networks looking to cut costs.

Large non-profit healthcare providers cite a decrease in patient population and high upkeep costs as reasons for closing their rural treatment centers, but the true reason is financial problems stemming from a lack of payments from private health plans.

A recent report from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spearheaded by U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chairman of the committee, examines the areas of the federal 340B program that need reform.

Oregon has seen an increase in food insecurity following the COVID-19 Pandemic, with more residents facing food insecurity in 2023 than in 2020.