Health

As pharmacies take on a larger role in delivering care, they are challenging a long-standing assumption about medicine: that healthcare has to happen in a traditional healthcare setting. For most of modern medicine, receiving healthcare has meant going somewhere specifically designed for it. We visit our primary care physician (PCP) for an annual checkup, a hospital when something is seriously wrong, or a specialty clinic for everything in between. Yet one of the most signif

For decades, genomic research has disproportionately represented those of European ancestry. The All of Us Research Program aims to build a more representative biomedical dataset, reflecting a growing acknowledgment that precision medicine cannot fully serve all patients if the genomic evidence does not represent them. When a 57-year-old African American woman with cancer received an uncertain result after genetic testing for Lynch syndrome, an inherited condition that incre

A well-lit street does more than improve visibility; it shapes who feels safe moving through a neighborhood and who bears the health costs when infrastructure falls short. A streetlight is a piece of city infrastructure that becomes visible only when it fails. A dark block changes an ordinary walk home: Will a driver see me at the crosswalk? Can I see what is happening farther down the sidewalk? Do I feel safe continuing on foot, or should I change my route or call a ride? Ci

A clinician gently holds a patient's hand, representing hospice's focus on dignity and comfort at the end of life. When we hear the word “hospice,” some may intuitively visualize death, grieving, finality, and the act of providing comfort in anticipation of loss. By definition, hospice serves as a specific type of palliative care provided to individuals with terminal illnesses, focusing on dignity and quality of life. To fully understand how hospice has continued to evolve to

In February 2019, Oswego Community Hospital, a 12-bed Critical Access Hospital in southeast Kansas, pictured above, abruptly closed. The organization cited financial instability arising from low reimbursement rates and high volumes of uninsured patients as factors contributing to its closure. This closure exposed how fragile rural health infrastructure has become. When a rural hospital closes , headlines tend to focus on abandoned emergency rooms and extended ambulance routes

A healthcare professional fills out medical forms. The 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed into law, reshapes numerous pieces of legislation, particularly those related to healthcare, education, and the allocation of public funding. While the media has covered the changes to Medicare and Medicaid eligibility as well as the restructuring of loan payments, the implications on college students caught between the intersections of these policy changes are often not di