Back in the late 1990s, a distressing trend took hold in rural America. At that time, rural and urban mortality rates started ...

All-cause mortality rates in rural areas have exceeded those in urban areas of the US since the 1980s, and the gap continues to widen. Yet no definitive causes of this difference are known, and within ...

Over 61 million people live in rural towns across the United States. These communities are characterized by their remoteness and low population density, with less than 500 individuals per square mile ...

Typically, hospitals in rural areas are much smaller than the ones we see in big cities. Regardless of their size, rural healthcare plays a significant role in keeping the communities healthy and ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Time for a dramatic transformation to make rural areas more productive, sustainable, ...

People living in rural counties have a greater risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), requiring hospitalization, and dying from COPD than those in urban areas. Higher smoking ...

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a road map for increasing access to science, technology, engineering, and math education opportunities and ...

I'm that 5G guy. I've actually been here for every "G." I've reviewed well over a thousand products during 18 years working full-time at PCMag.com, including every generation of the iPhone and the ...

For the period 2007–17 rural death rates were higher than urban rates for the seven major causes of death analyzed, and disparities widened for five of the seven. In 2017 urban areas had met national ...

This is part of CNET's "Crossing the Broadband Divide" series exploring the challenges of getting internet access to everyone. When Galen Manners was offered a promotion at his job, he didn't want to ...