Growing up in Chinle, Ariz., the heart of the Navajo Nation, Kim Russell said she never saw the same physician twice. “They didn’t have a high level of commitment to the community,” she said. Facing a ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Traditional healing practices used for generations to treat the body and mind are now being recognized as health care in New Mexico. Medicaid in the state will now cover these ...

Inside the Friendship House, a rhythmic drum beat fills the air as clients gather in a circle, chanting a Lakota battle song. For Priscilla Lenares, the sound transports her back 11 years to her own ...

When Washington’s legislative session kicks off next week, lawmakers will take up the issue of traditional Native American medicine. Washington state Medicaid doesn’t currently reimburse Native ...

Surveys the Native American healing and health care practices from the time of first European contact up to the present. Includes a chapter profiling some Native American healers. siris_sil_741411 ...

Meet seven trailblazing women who transformed medicine, from the first female doctors to Nobel Prize-winning scientists.

Medicine Ball, a new documentary by Twin Cities PBS will be screened at the University of Minnesota Morris on March 23.