For many Americans, the first concern when it comes to health care access is a financial one. It isn’t news that we have one of the most expensive health care systems in the developed world. But for ...

According to Summit County Public Health, about 30,000 residents live in food deserts, areas with high poverty that also lack access to large grocery stores. According to Summit County Public Health, ...

Scientists discovered genetic variants in the Turkana that help conserve water in deserts, but these variants may now raise disease risks in urban settings, early data suggest.

Pharmacy shortages, which make medications, vaccinations, and other health care services harder to get, can be detrimental to ...

US and Kenyan researchers have collaborated on a study that has revealed more about genetic adaptations in people that have occurred because of environmental pressures. This effort focused on people ...

A Tulane University study following more than 1,500 individuals with atrial fibrillation found those in food deserts faced higher rates of stroke, hospitalization, and death. Stacey Leasca is an award ...

Patients with atrial fibrillation who live in neighborhoods with poor access to full-service grocery stores face sharply higher odds of stroke and death, according to a new study from Tulane ...

Living in a food desert increases health risks for people with atrial fibrillation A-Fib patients have a more than doubled risk of stroke if they live in a food desert They also are nearly four times ...

Center for Hunger-Free Communities staff were quoted in an Aug. 8 RTVE piece about U.S. food deserts, a term that seeks to define the lack of fresh, nutritious, and affordable produce that extends ...

Patients with atrial fibrillation who live in neighborhoods with poor access to full-service grocery stores face sharply higher odds of stroke and death, according to a new study from Tulane ...

Across the country, entire neighborhoods — most often Black and low-income —are left without a single bank in sight. These so-called “bank deserts” aren’t accidents of geography, but the result of ...