When feeling unwell, the main options are primary care, urgent care, and the Emergency Department. Navigating these choices can feel challenging.

Vermont’s Medicaid pharmacy system has suffered the same cyberattack that struck much of New England.

Cases of a sometimes fatal lung disease normally found along the nation’s major lakes and rivers are being seen in north-central Vermont. Researchers don’t know why.

The clinic is billed as an alternative to going to hospital emergency rooms, where a crush of people in mental health crisis have overwhelmed staff and services, leading to ‘wait times’ of hours and in some cases days. 

Covid-era labor shortages and high demand for vaccines led to poor working conditions and medication/vaccination errors at Vermont’s largest drug store chain.

People who donate one kidney can continue to live healthy lives with their remaining kidney.

Rather than continue to treat ER patients on stretchers in hallways, the Newport hospital will convert an ambulance bay into four new patient rooms.

States are seeing an alarming surge in cases of congenital syphilis, a preventable infection that can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, newborn death — or lifelong complications such as blindness or deafness.

State health leaders encourage people to take responsibility for their health and that of their communities’.

“The purpose [of the bus] is to collect stories of vaccine injuries, deaths, and disabilities, as well as healthy unvaccinated stories. … We’ve had doctors, nurses, moms, daughters tell stories. They are all being featured on CHD.TV live and they’ll be cataloged there,” Stella said.

Veterans are three times more likely, and released inmates six times more likely, to commit suicide, a recent state report shows.

Skin cancer is the most prevalent cancer in Vermont, and the state has the second-highest per-capita rate of new melanoma cases in the nation, according to the National Cancer Institute.

A disease first reported in Nantucket in 1969 is now endemic to Vermont.

Bird flu spillover to people has already happened. The only question is: will an avian pandemic become a human one?

After hitting a woman staff member with a urinal, an ER patient taunted, “this is Vermont. What are they going to do?”

Hundreds of Vermonters are seeking mental health support that just isn’t there.

They’ve warned about the coming crisis at Vermont’s long-term care facilities for years. It’s here. Now.

Delaying “exploding” puberty can have tragic, irreversible results.

Exercise gives the hippocampus a “bubble bath” which results in noticeable improved function.

Approval of new procedure would make cavity treatment affordable under Medicaid.

Despite federal funding, a South Royalton dental clinic can’t offer services because it lacks dental hygienists.

Four-legged patients get loving, expert healthcare inside Baby Huey, the rolling veterinary clinic operated by the Mitzvah Fund.

Just the latest Internet Fear Fest? Or is there something to all of the online stories about rubbery blood clots being pulled from bodies alive and dead? Steve Kirsch is curious.

Young children who as infants weren’t exposed to RSV due to social distancing and masking are more vulnerable to it now.

The conference is dedicated to Patty, who lovingly cared for her family member with use disorder and schizophrenia for decades, before she was overcome by anxiety and unrelenting depression.

The lawyer who pursued Big Pharma for the U.S. Attorney’s Office has been named chair of the State of Vermont’s health care industry regulator.

West Nile virus has shown up in Vermont mosquitoes for the first time this year.

A Vermont health insurance provider is suing Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals for taking illegal kickbacks on its multiple schlerosis treatment.

The second-oldest state in the nation now has at least one hospital with an accredited Geriatric Emergency Department.

Spend less on prescription drugs, spend more spent on other necessities of life – that’s how the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ may affect Vermonters.

As Vermont observes World Breastfeeding Week, local pharmacies are still short on infant baby formula.

In addition to base wage increases totaling 20% over 20 months, the new contract includes ratification and retention bonuses, increased on-call pay and differential pay, and other important measures.

The family of a Lowell girl forced to wear a mask in school needs support, says a leader in Health Choice Vermont and a new chapter of Children’s Health Defense, a vaccine freedom organization founded by Robert Kennedy Jr..

Vermont’s Pandemic Generation is in the midst of a mental health crisis.

A national pharmacy chain with 32 Vermont stores failed to deliver scheduled Covid-19 vaccinations and testing due to staffing problems, Vermont regulators say.

The Biden administration is restoring federal family planning funding to Planned Parenthood. Now will Phil Scott stop the replacement funding his administration authorized in 2019?

A $7 million grant to the UVM School of Medicine could lead to breakthroughs in reducing nerve pain and opioid dependence for people receiving chemotherapy.

Thanks to pandemic measures, some Vermonters are still waiting months to see doctors.

For a state often called “the healthiest in the nation,” Vermont has some troubling health risk indicators.

Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, Rebecca Stone began researching a pair of different epidemics plaguing rural Vermont: opioid addiction and domestic violence.

The Biden administration has rescinded permissions for Michigan and Wisconsin to require Medicaid beneficiaries to either work or attend school or job training in order to enroll in the public health program for lower-income Americans. The Trump administration embraced the idea of requiring Medicaid beneficiaries to work, prompting a number of Republican-leaning states to apply for permission to impose such requirements in their Medicaid programs.