Where you live can shape your health and your prescription costs. Urban and rural communities differ not just in lifestyle and resources, but also in the medications people take and how much they pay ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, people who lived in rural America fared a little better than their urban counterparts. The rate of deaths from all causes was a tad lower outside of metropolitan areas. In the ...

Despite overall satisfaction with their diets, rural and urban consumers are divided on agriculture's role in climate change and the health attributes of various products like plant-based milk, Purdue ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. It’s easy to think cervical cancer could be 100 ...

An expansion of higher-level neonatal care has been observed in urban hospitals in the US over the years, whereas rural ...

The Rural Health Transformation Program, coming out of The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, is designed to improve healthcare access, quality, and outcomes for rural providers. The Rural Health ...

Government scholars Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown both grew up in rural communities—and both were struck by how divided those small towns became. "Growing up, many of my family friends voted for ...

CRESCENT CITY, FLA. — On an early foggy morning, this small town in rural Putnam County could pass for a historic Northeastern seaport, though the Atlantic Ocean is 40 minutes away. Crescent City was ...

Rural acute care hospitals charge far less than their urban counterparts, according to a broad analysis of Medicare costs and charges by iVantage Health Analytics, a firm that compiles a hospital ...

A strategy for building a rural-urban working-class coalition. Ad Policy Sarah Lloyd, a member of the Wisconsin Farmers Union and president of the local chapter, works on her farm in Wisconsin Dells, ...

Explore the rural-urban transition in Odisha and the government's Rs 200 crore initiative for sustainable urbanisation.

A growing number of urban hospitals are reclassifying themselves as both urban and rural to reap financial benefits Congress intended for rural hospitals only, a new study has found. “In 2016, in ...