Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha DeVaughan ...

Fewer people than before are being diagnosed with and dying from cancer in Appalachia, but cancer incidence and death rates ...

Jack Schlossberg seems to share two key traits with JFK, his late grandfather and former president: shamelessness and, quite ...

There are important distinctions in cancer diagnoses and deaths among different regions of Appalachia, with certain areas ...

An earlier Stateline story reported that policy, poverty, rural isolation and bad habits are shortening lives in West ...

Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Health and the Public Interest program hosted a public health researcher to ...

"To pit survivors against each other in a race for aid only serves to distract the public from the politicians who would like ...

Part 1. How the fall of the coal industry changed politics in eastern Kentucky: The decline of coal jobs caused economic collapse in eastern Kentucky. In the 1970s, Pike County was one of the ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: ...

One family in Bristol, Tenn., lost four daughters – all between the ages of 18 months and 14 years – during the Spanish ...

JD Vance dismissed questions about a potential 2028 Presidential run, stating that he has not thought much about it. He ...

Upon his return to the House Appropriations Committee after an 18-year hiatus, Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., has one central ...