A bipartisan group of lawmakers agree: Medicare and Medicaid are failing 12 million of the country's most vulnerable patients.

A new service added to the 988 Lifeline will offer suicide prevention and mental health crisis counseling through American Sign Language for people who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing without the need for an interpreter.

Recent surveys suggest that half of U.S. adults experience loneliness and the impact is not equal based on age and demographics. As more attention has been brought to the impact of loneliness and social isolation on peoples mental and physical health, some researchers, congregations and health organizations are taking steps to address it as part of preventative care.

State departments of health across the region have taken some action and issued advisories as the synthetic drug-involved overdose death toll has risen in recent years.

Girls in the U.S. are experiencing record high levels of violence, sadness and suicide risk. A school-based program is helping them.

Procedural errors are confusing people and leaving some stunned with unexpected loss of Medicaid health insurance coverage.

Investigators are still trying to sort out what caused the enormous fire across 14 acres at a former factory site full of plastics.

Toxic waste from the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment is coming to Roachdale, Indiana. And Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb doesn’t like it.

The Environmental Protection Agency also announced that two new hazardous waste sites will receive some of the shipments — an incinerator in Grafton, Ohio, and a landfill in Roachdale, Indiana.

Indiana residents along the Ohio River worry toxic chemicals from the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio could pollute their drinking water. But water quality experts say the amount in the river has been low and is getting lower as it flows down the Ohio.