Health & Environment

Dennis Pond doesn’t tell his psychiatrist about his thoughts of suicide. But he has them. He often feels useless, in large part because his diabetes has…

Cow guts are quite the factory. Grass goes in, microbes help break it down and make hydrogen, then other microbes start converting it to another gas. In…

Several Illinois lawmakers want to improve patient outcomes through legislation that would limit the number of people nurses can care for at any given…

Most people knew James Strain as “Butch.” Dr. Cynthia Meneghini called him “Dad.” She remembers h im as a handyman who could fix anything. When she…

Getting to Anne Polston’s house is a journey: first, you have to get to Liberty , a town about two hours southeast of Louisville. Then, there’s a…

Since February, patients in Illinois have been able to swap their opioid prescriptions for marijuana. And many are doing just that.

Douglas rattles around a collection of glass jars in the storage closet of his Denver apartment. They’re filled with a small grain, like barley, and…

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services will soon allow gender confirmation surgery to be covered by Medicaid. That procedure, most…

It’s been five years since the last ag census. Since 2012, the U.S. has lost about 70,000 farms, saw the average age of farmers go up and prices for…

For years, transplant surgeons have been reluctant to use organs from people who were infected with hepatitis C, due to fears of spreading the virus….

The opioid epidemic has ravaged cities across the United States. And just a couple of years ago, Dayton, Ohio, had one of the nation’s worst overdose…

In the course of reporting my previous story on the gap between wages and the cost of housing, I spent time following a case manager with the Southern…

Panelists at Side Effects Public Media’s two-part Happier Birth Days conversation answered viewer questions about maternal and infant health disparities…