The Latest Breaking News from Indian Health Service

Justin Fulcher on Why Healthcare Is Still the World's Most Solvable Unsolved Problem

As founder of RingMD, he scaled telehealth services across more than fifty countries, including partnerships with the Indian government's Digital India program and the US Indian Health Service.

International Business Times · Apr 16

New Mexico launches investigation of forced sterilization of Native American women

In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent

The Independent UK · Feb 21

DOGE lease cancellations: Which government offices could be closed this year and when

The General Services Administration, working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, has notified landlords that federal agencies will be terminating hundreds of leases for offices and buildings in the coming months

The Independent UK · Mar 14, 2025

Storm deaths ‘could have been prevented’, Indigenous leaders say

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe in the US is seeking a presidential disaster declaration after six dead in winter snowstorms.

Al Jazeera · Jan 23, 2023

South Dakota tribe: Storm deaths 'could have been prevented'

A Native American tribe in South Dakota says several of its members died when December storms buried their reservation in snow and left them stranded

The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2023

Indian Health Service steps up COVID, other vaccine push

The Indian Health Service says all tribal members covered by the federal agency will be offered a vaccine at every appointment, when appropriate

The Independent UK · Nov 17, 2022

Tribe embraces recreational marijuana sales on reservation where alcohol is banned

PINE RIDGE, S.D. — In a growing number of U.S. states, people can both drink alcohol and legally smoke recreational marijuana. In others, they can use alcohol but not pot. But on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the opposite is true: Marijuana is legal, but booze is…

Tribune News Service · Aug 10, 2022

Legal Cannabis On A Native Reservation In South Dakota Where Alcohol Is Illegal

In South Dakota, more precisely in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, marijuana is legal, but alcohol is banned...quite the opposite from many other states.

Benzinga · Aug 8, 2022

Tribal pharmacy dispenses free meds and fills gaps for Native Americans in the city

MINNEAPOLIS — Tucked away on a side street near downtown, the Mashkiki Waakaa’igan Pharmacy offers its Native American clientele the services of any ordinary drugstore — it dispenses critical medication and provides consultation on treatments.

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2022

Tribes credited with elevating vaccinations in rural Arizona

In a pandemic that has seen sharp divides between urban and rural vaccination rates nationwide, Arizona is the only state where rural vaccine rates outpaced more populated counties according to a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Independent UK · May 7, 2022