The U.S. has nearly 400,000 fewer workers in nursing and residential-care facilities than it did before the pandemic.

Separate operations focused on aviation, health care and energy will be more agile — and independent of one another’s weaknesses.

“Our health is all interconnected and inextricable from the conditions in which we live,” says epidemiologist Dr. Sandro Galea.

The program helps licensed vocational nurses who work in state prisons to become registered nurses.

The Biden administration calls the Colorado change a “landmark” in eliminating health care disparities. Will other states follow?

Health care workers in a few states could lose their jobs this week if they don’t get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Many have been diagnosed with cancer. The exposure to toxins from the pulverized buildings “has a really, really long tail,” a doctor says.

Traveling RNs make far more money than full-timers in the same job, stirring frustration at hospitals. Governments often foot the bill.

The reasons range from disparities created by Medicaid to racism in health care, according to experts.

Even the East Coast has had air quality issues due to this summer’s wildfire smoke.