The Rural Blog

A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism, based at the University of Kentucky. Links may expire, require subscription or go behind pay walls. Please send news and knowledge you think would be useful to benjy.hamm@uky.edu.

The Rural Blog

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A rural Ohio pharmacy school embraces pharmacists' expanded 'provider status' by deploying a mobile care unit

Study: How independent pharmacy challenges and closures impact rural pharmacists

Report: Chain drugstores get $23.55 to fill a blood pressure prescription, but a small drugstore gets only $1.51

Rural pharmacies are medical 'cornerstones' in their communities; despite financial stresses, some are growing

Abortion roundup: Biden administration says hospitals must provide abortions if woman's life is at risk, despite state laws

Quick hits: Apply by March 31 for business journalism fellowship; Americans cut back on pricey meat analogues

Independent rural pharmacies are shuttering, killed off by chains; millions of Americans are left in 'drugstore deserts'

Quick hits: pharmacists could administer kids' vaccinations; what post-pandemic food supply chains could look like

Mail delays expose pitfalls of prescription home delivery

Quick hits: Rural neighborliness a lifeline; rural pharmacies struggle; webinar on farmers' aid short of information

Death in Mud Lick digs into the opioid crisis in rural West Virginia, underlines the value of local journalists

Trump administration shielded Walmart from criminal prosecution over opioid prescriptions, investigation finds

Ky. touts bill to rein in Medicaid pharmacy managers, whom rural, independent pharmacies blame for trouble and closure

Rural Minn. woman sues after two pharmacists refuse to fill morning-after pill prescription because of religious beliefs

Community pharmacies could be a key to getting more rural teens vaccinated for virus that causes sex-related cancers

Secret reports on opioid sales to be released; last day to sign up for Fri. workshop on covering epidemic, recovery

Quick hits: Cricket burgers; fewer children have health insurance; EPA shunts blame for FOIA policy

Rural doctor's weight-loss clinic sees big results with old-fashioned methods: eat better food, less of it, and exercise

Rural coroner made the tough call on local opioid epidemic

Database, Post map show how many pain pills individual pharmacies dispensed in 2006-12; the top 10 were all rural