Hawaii was the first state to recognize a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy, but women in rural Hawaii who wish to exercise that right face plenty of hurdles.

Abortions are legal, but no doctors have offered the procedure since the last provider retired.

Two U.S. senators have released a list of nursing homes nationwide, including six in Hawaii, that have a pattern of providing residents unsafe or substandard care.

Put the money toward research, treatment and finding ways to better the health of everyone, the same as we did with tobacco settlements.

As part of the study, a UH professor of tropical medicine will study blood samples from children in Myanmar who have both diseases.

More funding is leading to new discoveries as the parasite continues to sicken people in Hawaii.

Mike Hashimoto, a former acupuncture board member who pushed for regulation, was accused by a patient of unprofessional conduct.

An east Hawaii Island resident may have contracted the disease in early February. The exact source of the disease could not be identified.

The executive director of the nonprofit Sand Island Treatment Center has been paid as much as $500,000 a year — and many counselors make over $100,000 — far in excess of their peers in Hawaii.

The statewide percentage of students exempted by their parents from being immunized is 8.1% at charter schools, 2.7% at private schools and 1.4% at traditional public schools.

There are several theories about why the islands haven’t been hit as hard as the mainland, even though a lot of people here have prescriptions for painkillers.

State public health officials have the duty to protect residents from illness and communicable disease, but the requirements must abide by the law.