Last year, I spoke with an Iowa mother who found her then-6-year-old son attempting to take his own life during a monthslong ...

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Violence prevention programs, particularly community-based interventions, can significantly reduce homicides and shootings in ...

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Health industry trend and policy analyst. Former Executive Director, The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, Washington DC and Senior Management at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In the age ...

I’m an independent journalist from Southern California. I focus on science, climate, and public health. My reporting and criticism have appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic, The ...

Genoa Barrow serves as senior staff writer at the Sacramento Observer, where she has reported for 25 years. She covers a range of topics, including government, politics, health disparities, education ...

I was about four hours away from home in a rural Nevada community in Elko County when a mother told me about her son, who died by suicide. Her son, a high school junior, walked into his parents’ room, ...

Veteran journalist Fran Smith’s new column for our Health Divide series examines the sweeping, often confusing changes in federal health care policy and funding, and how reporters can cover the ...

Donald Trump came into office promising to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something more affordable that would cover everyone. But members of congress couldn't agree on what that should be. They ...

Robert Hensley typically asks visitors not to come by until after 10:30 a.m. By then, he has injected himself with a $10 dose of heroin, a twice-daily dependency. Then, he can brush his teeth. Maybe ...

Across Louisville, people are dreaming of new ways to get healthy food to the neighborhoods that need it. Could the University of Louisville develop a research grocery store where students test ...