Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Start with a snapshot: Adults without reliable ...

Food insecurity continues to affect many families in Ohio, jeopardizing their physical and mental health. Ohio’s food insecurity rate slightly exceeds the national average at 12.8%. Southern counties ...

With school out for the summer, nearly 13 million children in the U.S. will not have guaranteed access to regular meals. Food insecurity, a reality for so many American families, tends to get worse in ...

Boxes of food from the Farm Share food distribution are loaded into cars at the Jessie Trice Community Health Center in Miami Gardens on Friday June 1, 2022. Florida Policy Institute has released its ...

Struggling to afford food today could mean heart problems tomorrow. Young adults experiencing food insecurity have a 41% greater risk of developing heart disease in midlife, even after accounting for ...

Food insecurity is not only linked with, but directly causes symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to research published in the open-access journal PLOS Mental Health. Melissa Bateson of ...

Ian Lee is a CBS News correspondent based in London, where he reports for CBS News, CBS Newspath and CBS News 24/7. Lee is a multi-award-winning journalist whose work covering major international ...

As grocery prices continue to rise, many college students are turning to their campus food pantry to help make ends meet.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that they will not collect food insecurity data for 2025. The timing could not be worse. Just as cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

The number of Long Islanders coping with food insecurity is growing, experts say. Hauppauge-based Long Island Cares puts the current number at over 313,000 people. And Feeding America reported last ...

College students are more likely to experience food insecurity, compared to the general population, but funding and support for programs that address basic needs in higher education remains limited. A ...

The share of Americans reporting trouble affording food is rising this year amid persistently high grocery costs, according to a recent report from Purdue University. Roughly 14% of U.S. households ...