Across the country, a small group of lawyers and care navigators help patients, often desperately ill, battle with health insurers to access services. It’s a high-stress job, and “you don’t save everybody.”

Eating disorders are America’s deadliest mental health condition. For people struggling to get care, health insurers create some of the most formidable hurdles.

A maternal health therapist in Louisville explains how to support new and expectant moms.

A new report finds overdose deaths dropped in Kentucky by 30.2% in 2024 compared to the previous year, when the state posted a 9.8% decrease.

Thousands of Midwesterners obtained health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion. A federal work requirement would force states to enforce a policy that could cause a loss of benefits caused by administrative errors and red tape.

Across the U.S., some people with mental illness wait months in jail for court-ordered competency evaluations, with little to no mental health care. One Indiana man's case reveals how delays prolong suffering — and expose a system unequipped to help.

Long ER waits in the U.S. are common, especially for older patients. Some wait for many hours or even days to get a hospital bed. That's according to a new data analysis by Side Effects Public Media and the Associated Press. And experts say things will only get worse as the U.S. prepares for a "silver tsunami."

As a national coalition aims to reduce overdose deaths in Black communities, one Louisville mother is turning her grief into advocacy to increase awareness.

The study funding process came to a halt when the Trump administration announced the cancellation of roughly $400 million in federal funds to Columbia University, through which funding flowed before it was sent to research sites, including Indiana.

Business owners and city officials in Nashville have implemented a program that uses an opioid reversal kit created in West Virginia to bolster harm reduction efforts in the city’s tourism district.