Felicia D. Cosby wasn’t expecting a student’s casual comment to spark a public health initiative. But when a student told her she’d love to be a doula, the idea stuck. Months later, Virginia Union University became the first HBCU in the state to launch a doula certification program.
While state law requires menstrual products in Virginia public schools, the absence of state funding forces nonprofits to shoulder the burden.
There's the initial shock and chaos in a collective disaster like the deadly and destructive California wildfires. Here's what you can do in the aftermath.
Recent events may leave you feeling uncertain about basic human rights. If the president wants to take away your reproductive freedoms, who can you turn to?
This new rule will erase an estimated $49 billion in unpaid medical bills from the credit reports of roughly 15 million Americans, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency estimates that the new federal rule could help boost consumer credit scores by an average of 20 points.
This season, Virginia Tech basketball players are stepping up with their own one-of-a-kind sneakers, painted alongside pediatric patients to raise awareness for the fight against childhood cancer.
Doctors are concerned that misinformation about birth control might make some women get off it at a time when there are fewer options available for unintended pregnancies in the US.
Trump’s pick for health secretary wants to increase access to raw milk, remove fluoride from drinking water, and has said that vaccines cause autism and that WiFi causes cancer.
We talked to an expert about the rise in anxiety during the 2024 election season, and what to do about it.
Here’s who RFK’s “health and wellness” political campaign is trying to reach, and why.
