Read the post Why Health Care Is Harder to Access in Rural America May 16, 2023 More than 60 million Americans—about one-fifth of the U.S. population—live in rural areas. On...
Read the post The Push to Increase Pediatric Research and Greater Diversity in Cancer Treatment Trials February 07, 2023 Advancements in cancer treatment and drug trials have improved survival rates. But children and...
Read the post As the Next Round of COVID Boosters Become Widely Available and Flu Season Begins, What Do We Know about Adult Vaccination Rates? October 19, 2022 With new COVID-19 boosters rolling out and flu season just around the corner, vaccinations are top...
Read the post Telehealth in the Pandemic—How Has It Changed Health Care Delivery in Medicaid and Medicare? September 29, 2022 To prevent the spread of COVID-19 early in the pandemic, millions of doctors’ visits and health care...
Read the post For Pride Month, We Look at Some of the Challenges Facing Some LGBTQ+ Communities June 23, 2022 Pride Month is meant to mark a turning point for gay rights and recognition efforts by the LGBTQ+...
Read the post Our Latest Report on COVID-19 Includes 15 New Recommendations to Improve Federal Efforts April 27, 2022 As the pandemic enters its third year, the nation continues to face challenges related to COVID’s...
Read the post For the Federal Response to COVID-19, Significant Improvements Are Needed in Leadership and Oversight January 27, 2022 Note: This blog post has been edited to update the number and percentage of recommendations fully...
Read the post How Could Available Technology Help the U.S. Respond to Omicron? December 08, 2021 U.S. cases of COVID-19’s latest variant, Omicron, are increasingly being reported in different parts...
Read the post The Crisis of Drug Misuse and Federal Efforts to Address It November 19, 2021 Earlier this week, many media outlets ran stories highlighting the growing crisis of drug misuse in...
Read the post How Can the Federal Government Strengthen its Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic? October 27, 2021 Deep into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, from health care to the economy, challenges...
Read the post Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities—Before and During the Pandemic September 28, 2021 News headlines during the pandemic have highlighted the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 across...
Read the post Trying to eat better? The federal government leads 200 diet-related efforts aimed to help, but it lacks a strategy September 21, 2021 Many chronic health conditions are preventable, yet they are the leading causes of death in the...
