Telemedicine Reaches Beyond Clinic Walls
Network Help Extend Access
by Candi Helseth
Telemedicine isn't confined to hospitals—it can reach patients in nursing homes, prisons and isolated geographic regions.

Focus on Human Services Research
The Geography of Need
The Rural Monitor speaks with Kathleen Miller, one of the authors of a new RUPRI study, The Geography of Need: Identifying Human Service Needs in Rural America.

Look What’s Coming
by Wayne Myers, M.D.
Another Farm Crisis?
Another farm crisis, as big as the one in the 1980s, could be coming, but this time there may be no ready help from the government.

Around the Country
by Candi Helseth
Illinois Programs Offer Diabetic and Overweight Patients a Fresh Start
Patients at Kirby Medical Group in Monticello, Ill., are losing weight and lowering their need for insulin.

Afternoons ROCK for Indiana Teenagers
Instead of going home to empty homes in the afternoons, many Indiana students are learning life skills while having fun.

Rural Spotlight
An Interview with Jan Probst
by Beth Blevins
The director of the South Carolina Rural Health Research Center discusses health inequities, rural obesity and what gives her work passion.