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The Rise of Health Misinformation and Disinformation
Recognizing the Truth
By Robin Austin, PhD, DNP, RN, DC, AND Katheren Koehn, MA, RN
In today’s digital world, health misinformation and disinformation can spread faster than ever, often outpacing the ability to identify and provide accurate updates from reliable sources. Misinformation is defined as information that is false, inaccurate or misleading according to the best available evidence at the time. Disinformation is defined as misleading content deliberately spread to deceive people, or to secure economic or political gain and that may cause public harm.
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The Rural Health Transformation Fund: Creating a sustainable way forward
By Jennifer Lundblad, PhD, Karla Weng, MPH, AND Sarah Brinkman
The passage by Congress of HR1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), in July 2025, included the establishment of the Rural Health Transformation Fund (RHTF). The RHTF was added late in the legislative process in recognition of how disproportionally rural areas of the United States were going to be affected by changes to Medicaid that will reduce reimbursement and coverage.
Specialty Care
The Evolution of Pain Management: A new multidisciplinary approach
By Angelito Sajor, MD
Looking back as far as history allows, we can see that treating pain was an important issue. Ancient Greek literature cites the use of plants, herbs and their derivatives that were used thousands of years ago to treat pain. Surviving artwork depicts doctors of the day providing care to patients very obviously in pain. Unfortunately, this most basic and common human problem remains a front and center issue today.
Interview
50 Years of Rural Health Care Leadership
Caryn Gerber, MBChB, Program Director, Duluth Family Medicine Residency Program
Telehealth
Telehealth as an Ethical Duty: CMS Changes Advance Maternal Remote Monitoring
By
Anish Sebastian
The maternal health care industry has been divided over the use of telehealth since the early days of its use for obstetrics, and the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the debate to a global stage as health care providers were left with no other choice than to implement telehealth solutions to help deliver care.
