In Matthew Roach’s two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in its epidemiology program, he has witnessed a trend in mortality rates ...

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 ...

A regulatory loophole has allowed hundreds of large, urban hospitals to claim rural benefits, raising alarms from lawmakers and experts who warn that taxpayer dollars are being diverted from the very ...

Thirty-five artists across four states are participating in a rural-urban solidarity initiative. One project in Minnesota connected elementary school students from St. James and Minneapolis. (Photo by ...

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 ...

Congress has implemented a number of policies over the past four decades to boost access to care for rural Americans, who tend to be older and sicker compared with their urban counterparts. The ...

A new analysis of more than 422,000 patients reveals a stark Alzheimer’s care gap between Maryland’s urban and rural communities. Rural regions often lack hospitals and dementia specialists, forcing ...

Hundreds of urban hospitals have taken advantage of a 2016 policy change that allows them to be simultaneously classified by Medicare as rural and urban facilities for payment purposes, according to a ...

The migration of individuals from rural to urban areas in Malaysia plays a pivotal role in demographic and economic ...

Rural Texas is facing a healthcare crisis that looks very different from the challenges in big cities. New analysis from the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation shows that four out of five rural ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We can bridge the rural-urban divide in our state Re: “Why rural Coloradans feel ignored — a resentment as old as America itself,” Aug. 24 commentary Years ...