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Appalachia's health care story2 years ago

Amid Black Lung Surge, Kentucky Changes Benefits Process for Miners

William McCool is a 64-year-old former coal miner from Letcher County, Kentucky, with an advanced form of black lung disease. Health experts say the condition is...

Appalachia's health care story2 years ago

In Rural WV, Sexual Assault Victims Face Unique Hurdles

Each Thursday in Fayette County, West Virginia, Twanna Warner-Burton stands before a group of people gathered by WorkForce West Virginia, the state agency managing unemployment. But...

Appalachia's health care story3 years ago

Appalachia Can’t Close the Health Disparity Gap Until it Fixes its Hospitals

Appalachia is falling behind the rest of the United States in key health metrics. Financial instability in the region’s health care industry, a devastating opioid crisis...

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Drug Company Gilead Gives $11M To Halt Hep C Rise In Ohio Valley

Appalachia’s health care story

The Struggle for Coal Miners’ Health Care and Pension Benefits Continues

Rural People With Disabilities are Still Struggling to Recover from the Recession

Amid Black Lung Surge, Kentucky Changes Benefits Process for Miners

In Rural WV, Sexual Assault Victims Face Unique Hurdles

Appalachia Can’t Close the Health Disparity Gap Until it Fixes its Hospitals

Small Cities and Towns Join National Police-Violence Protests

A Return to Normal Hasn’t Quite Happened in Many Houses of Worship in Appalachia

Cherokee Artists Hold Family, Land And Community In Handmade Baskets

Could Coronavirus Change How We Are Born? In Appalachia, It Already Is.

Questions And Anxiety Mount Over COVID-19 Workplace Safety As More Businesses Reopen

Think Americans Are Polarized Over Reopening, Face Masks? Survey Says Think Again

Voting in the Time of Coronavirus: What Appalachian States Can Learn to Open Polls Safely and Protect Turnout

Curfews and Tear Gas: A Recap of a Weekend of Protest in Appalachia and America

Appalachian Whiteness: A History that Never Existed

Tell Us How You Feel: Sign Up for Survey on Digital Media

People Are Fleeing to Appalachia to Escape COVID-19: That Needs to Stop

Coach Kellie: A Tiny West Virginia High School is Making Football History

‘Tip Of the Spear’: As Customers Beg For Clean Water, Is a Crisis Looming In Appalachia?

The Pendulum Effect: The science that took us from Obama to Trump

Ken Burns’s ‘Country Music’ Does Little to Tell the Story of the Non-White, Non-Straight World of Country

Fact-check: Viral Video Alleging a Muslim ‘Sharia Zone’ in West Virginia is Pants on Fire