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New research, sponsored by the National Grange, sheds light on the rural-urban disparity in cancer mortality, diagnosis and screenings across the U.S.  According to the CDC, cancer deaths in rural areas is 14% higher than those in urban communities.   ...

Earlier this week, USDA Rural Development Undersecretary Xochitl Torres Small announced that the agency is awarding $110 million in grants to improve healthcare facilities in rural towns across America.  These grants will help 208 rural healthcare organizations expand critical services for five million people in 43 states and Guam.   “...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to linger even as society and rural communities are ready to move on.  Dr. Michael Stevens, West Virginia University System Health Care Epidemiologist, Morgantown, West Virginia, said rural communities have seen disproportionate levels of COVID   “Rural communities have been disproportionately affected and impacted by the pandemic in terms of having more severe COVI

Much of the attention of the Inflation Reduction Act has been on the efforts to address climate change, but Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said that’s not the only part of that bill recently signed into law that will help rural America.   “In terms of lower health care costs, for many, many Americans, senior citizens, a significant percentage of which live in rural America.”   Vilsac...

On Thursday, Representative Dan Newhouse and 49 other lawmakers voiced their support for a rule that would make permanent the expansion of telehealth benefits. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services initiated the benefit expansion early in the coronavirus pandemic in hopes to provide medical care for those that could not, or should not, travel ...

Supporters of new legislation in the Senate say would help rural health care providers deliver high-quality care.   Kansas Republican Pat Roberts and Nevada Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, authors of the legislation, said the Rural ACO Improvement Act would fix a glitch in the program.  Ac...

Supporters of new legislation in the Senate say would help rural health care providers deliver high-quality care.   Kansas Republican Pat Roberts and Nevada Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, authors of the legislation, said the Rural ACO Improvement Act would fix a glitch in the program.  Ac...

According to the AARP the average older American takes 4.5 prescription drugs, typically on a persistent basis, and 72% say they are concerned about finding affordable medications.  With one-third of U.S. farmers over the age of 65, AARP’s Sean Voskuhl says the impacts of rising prescription drug costs are sharply felt across rural America.   “...

According to the AARP the average older American takes 4.5 prescription drugs, typically on a persistent basis, and 72% say they are concerned about finding affordable medications.  With one-third of U.S. farmers over the age of 65, AARP’s Sean Voskuhl says the impacts of rising prescription drug costs are sharply felt across rural America.   “This...