In the hunt to understand why some people get certain types of cancer and then have different outcomes, biomedical researchers look at genetic profiles and variables like age, gender, race, and other ...

PLANTS FOR THE PEOPLE: Starting left, Jeannie Dunn, Lupo Passero and Jamie Bartlet, volunteer at an Appalachian Herb Collective pop-up where free herbal medicines are offered to support a variety of ...

Hiker at Big Cedar Mountain Overlook, Georgia. Photo courtesy of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy Tomorrow, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy will welcome hikers and hiking enthusiasts to Black Dome ...

APPALACHIA is a region as large as all Great Britain and the home of fifteen million Americans. Once, long ago, it was green and rich. For years it has been sick and now it is dying, a charity patient ...

In August 2018, the fifth annual Shaping Our Appalachian Region Summit, a social services and jobs fair, was held in Pikeville, Ky. Among the booths set up by local universities and health-care ...