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As U.S. home prices reach historic highs and proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP) are underway, the health of low-income rural residents is becoming a cause for concern.  Meeting nutritional needs is already a challenge in many rural areas, which tend to have higher food prices, less variety, and lower quality fresh meat…

ALLEGAN COUNTY, Mich. —Lyla Whitney-Baier went to Beacon Allegan Hospital expecting treatment for low hemoglobin

Across the rural South, Black women continue to be diagnosed with cervical cancer too late — not because solutions are unknown, but because systems fail to reach, inform and support them in time. Participatory research — engaging communities in investigating and challenging systemic failures — is helping to change that, creating an opportunity for philanthropy…

In his recent newsletter, Sen. Dan Sullivan claims he “led the effort in last year’s Working Families Tax Cuts Act to create a new $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP).” This act has been called “the Big Beautiful Bill” by President Trump

When healthy food is difficult to access, chronic disease often follows, making food insecurity one of the major contributors of poor health in rural communities. Our analysis found that 149 rural Texas census tracts, with a combined population of about 480,000, have high or very high food insecurity vulnerability

W.Va. (WVVA) — Gov. Patrick Morrisey has announced $10.5 million in new funding through the state’s Rural Health Transformation Program, bringing the program’s total secured funding to $145 million

US-based Instacart has partnered with rural lifestyle retailer Tractor Supply Company to offer same-day delivery from more than 2,400 of the retailer’s locations across the US

MHA Chief Nursing Officer Amy Brown joined CBS Detroit to discuss new federal student loan borrowing limits that took effect July 1, warning how they could create additional barriers for nurses pursuing advanced degrees to become nurse practitioners and certified registered nurse anesthetists. Brown noted that many graduate nursing programs exceed the new borrowing caps,…

La. (KNOE) – Researchers from LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center have published the first set of data from the Risks Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal, or RURAL, Heart and Lung study in Franklin Parish