In many rural towns, local hospitals are community fixtures. When they close, the entire community feels the ripple effects.

In 2022, Side Effects Public Medias reporters and collaborators exposed health inequities and followed the top health stories of the year.

The project combines art, therapy and technology and is a collaboration between researchers at Herron School of Art and Design, IU School of Medicine and Indiana University's Advanced Visualization lab.

Children with sickle cell disease rely on daily doses of penicillin to prevent life-threatening infections. But lately, some are finding it hard to fill their prescriptions.

A new federal designation would allow struggling hospitals to end inpatient services, but some have concerns about how that could affect rural health care.

The nursing shortage has led to a greater reliance on travel nurses that come with big price tags. Thats causing some hospitals to rethink their nursing staff retention efforts.

Side Effects Public Media will be hosting virtual listening sessions on substance use, addiction and recovery.

More than $50 billion in opioid settlement dollars from drugmakers, distributors and pharmacies is starting to flow to state and local governments, and they need to figure out how to spend it.

As states take steps to tighten abortion laws, conversations have been reignited about how to best support families and babies. Many policy experts point to a permanent Child Tax Credit, made available to low- and no-income families, as one way to do that.

Professor Karen Bullock has spent the last two decades studying what stops seriously ill Black patients and their families from getting the care they want in life and in death.