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Deferred doctors visits during the pandemic have left kids across the country behind on routine inoculations.

In Iowa, midwives who are specially trained in home birth are pushing for licensure, as interest in home births rises and rural labor and delivery units continue to shutter.

U.S. hospitalization rates more than doubled during the latest omicron wave compared to the prior delta wave, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Black adults were more likely to end up hospitalized than White adults, regardless of their vaccination status.

Side Effects Public Media reporter Farah Yousy has been chosen for an Association of Health Care Journalists fellowship, for a project exploring racial…

Menthol has been the last allowable flavor in cigarettes, and the FDA says marginalized communities are far more likely to use these products.

The program will invite medical students from historically Black colleges and universities to do clinical rotations with NFL teams.

Only a handful of monkeypox cases in the U.S. are among children, out of thousands reported so far. Yet infectious disease experts are keeping a close eye on pediatric cases.

The World Health Organization has declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. The virus is spreading far beyond where it’s been endemic for decades through modes of transmission health experts still don’t fully understand.

In 2022, Side Effects Public Media’s reporters and collaborators exposed health inequities and followed the top health stories of the year.

The nursing shortage has led to a greater reliance on travel nurses that come with big price tags. That’s causing some hospitals to rethink their nursing staff retention efforts.