Also this week: Dearth of pandemic data on race, ethnicity ‘beyond bad,' and experts support additional oversight of pathogen research.
Health Insurance and Costs
Stigma leaves many without the products or knowledge they need to maintain a healthy period, a new reporting project finds.
The challenge: Proving that health tech companies can make a viable business out of reaching low-income people who also face social challenges.
The San Diego Union-Tribune is putting a spotlight on the real cost of child care in California.
Also this week: Latino teens take the lead in vaccine education, and fresh signs the tripledemic is on the wane.
GOP-led House takes aim at COVID origins, U.S. response. Also, public health experts see value in monitoring wastewater to detect new viral threats.
This story was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's National Fellowship.
Generations of corn growing, feedlot runoff and unwitting nitrogen overuse has left a sobering legacy buried in the Nebraska soil.
A form of addiction treatment called SMART Recovery uses cognitive behavioral therapy and positive thinking to help people beat their drug habit.
Like so many other American cities, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Woonsocket, Rhode Island has a growing population of unhoused residents.