Frances Gatta is a freelance health writer with experience covering health care technology, general health, mental health, femtech and personalized nutrition for companies and publications like Oura, ...

Telehealth provides a convenient and accessible way to access healthcare for certain physical and mental health issues. It particularly helps people in medically underserved areas get care. Telehealth ...

Most people ages 65 and older will need some form of long-term care at some point in their golden years and that care can be costly. So, it's important to prepare for this additional cost as you plan ...

When someone needs urgent mental health support, they have options beyond just visiting the emergency room (ER), which can be noisy, busy, and have long waiting times. In 2022, the Centers for Disease ...

With rates of suicide and opioid deaths rising in the past decade and children's mental health declared a national emergency, the United States faces an unprecedented mental health crisis. But access ...

SPENCER, Iowa — This town's hospital is a holdout on behalf of people going through mental health crises. The facility's leaders have pledged not to shutter their inpatient psychiatric unit, as dozens ...

A Times investigation found that people banned by California from operating assisted living homes were able to remain involved with other types of care facilities, a result of the state’s fragmented ...

Based in Tampa, Florida, Virginia Pelley is a former women's magazine editor who has written health and fitness content for Men's Journal, Cosmopolitan magazine, the Chicago Tribune, ...