3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (349+ words) World Suicide Prevention Day, observed annually on September 10, highlights the global toll of suicide while drawing attention to the disproportionately high rates experienced by American Indian and Alaska Native people. AI/AN communities face the highest suicide rates of any…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (419+ words) Here is our latest roundup of Health Equity news from across Indian Country. The University of Minnesota Duluth has launched a new initiative to train medical students to treat patients in rural and Native American communities. The school eliminated a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (271+ words) A year long clinical trial of virtual interventions showed a decrease in drug and alcohol use in Native American young adults living in urban centers. The largest clinical trial on the behavioral health of urban Native young adults showed that…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (648+ words) For more than three decades, researchers have been tracking ticks, mice, oak trees and other wildlife in a New York forest to better understand what makes Lyme disease more likely to spread. Their latest findings challenge some long-held assumptions — including…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (527+ words) A new executive order flies in the face of physician recommendations for childhood vaccines. President Trump signed an executive order last week calling for fewer childhood vaccines, citing a long-debunked theory that vaccines are linked to autism. Speaking from the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (286+ words) A multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to recalled shell eggs has sickened dozens of people, prompting federal health officials to warn consumers not to eat eggs covered by the recall. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug…...