Rural Health
News by Topic: Health conditions
Oct 10, 2025 - Discusses a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in rural Alaska, describing both the public health response and disparate rates of TB for Alaska historically. Notes stigma related to TB treatment as a barrier to successfully increasing testing.
Source: Alaska Public Media
Oct 9, 2025 - Highlights a new program in rural South Carolina to address malnutrition through protein focused nutrition prescriptions. Participants will have access to food boxes twice a month for 5 months as well as cooking demonstrations.
Source: Clemson News
Oct 2, 2025 - Describes a mobile training unit traveling to rural Missouri hospitals to offer additional training ahead of cold and flu season.
Source: KFVS 12
Oct 1, 2025 - The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is seeking comments on a draft recommendation to update the HRSA-supported Women's Preventive Services Guidelines relating to cervical cancer screening. These draft recommendations have been developed by the Women's Preventive Services Initiative (WPSI), through which clinicians, academics, and expert health professionals develop draft recommendations for HRSA's consideration. Comments are due by October 31, 2025.
Source: Federal Register
Sep 29, 2025 - Highlights a newly funded stroke treatment project in Louisiana to offer pharmaceutical education and on-site training in rural emergency departments and emergency medical services. The project will develop mobile resources to offer real-time guidance and clinical pharmacy information to improve stroke outcomes for rural residents.
Source: KNOE
Sep 27, 2025 - Describes how the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
National Oncology Program expanded access to provide cancer
and cancer survivorship care through most of the 23 Veteran
Integrated Service Network (VISN) regional care systems.
Source: VA News
Sep 24, 2025 - Analyzes birth and death data in Georgia to highlight population distributions trends between 1994 and 2024 with comparisons between rural and urban areas. Discusses the impact of COVID on the data.
Source: The Daily Yonder
Sep 23, 2025 - Describes legislation passed in the U.S. House of Representatives to extend COVID-era flexibilities for prescribing medication through telemedicine for physicians in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Discusses access issues for rural veterans as well as anxiety around seeing a doctor in a clinic.
Source: Camden News
Sep 22, 2025 - Highlights best practices in agricultural health and safety during the September harvest season. Discusses safety around equipment, mental health, and for children on farms.
Source: NIOSH Science Blog
Sep 12, 2025 - Describes a partnership between the American Heart Association and a rural Arkansas library system to offer blood pressure monitoring kits available for check out. Discusses differences in heart disease prevalence for rural and urban residents.
Source: American Heart Association Newsroom