A federal health study that was examining the high burden of chronic disease in rural areas learned its funding has been cut off.

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For women having babies in rural New Mexico, the need for midwives is acute — and not just for assisting in bringing newborns into the world. The University of New Mexico College of Nursing is ...

CEO Matt Ives wants to hire a third doctor, but he said finding physicians for a rural area has been challenging since the ...

The need for in-home care in rural areas has increased rapidly, coinciding with the aging of the Baby Boom generation, which ...

The causes of these alarming gaps in equitable access to emergency care are complex. Fixing the problem won’t come from ...

They are family‑planning assistants, health assistants, and community healthcare providers, who work at community clinics ...

The data shows that Medicaid cuts will disproportionately hurt rural Americans — who are already facing health disparities ...

In the gray language of the federal bureaucracy, the funding that mattered most was from the Teaching Health Centers Graduate ...

Residency programs like one co-administered by the Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority are critical in fixing the doctor and ...

The Oregon Institute of Technology is seeking financial support to start a new public medical school in Klamath Falls with ...