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Florida Foster Kids Are Given Powerful Medications, but Feds Find State Oversight Lacking
The powerful anti-seizure drug the 5-year-old boy had been taking for more than a year made him “almost catatonic,” his new foster mom from Florida’s Pinellas County worried.…
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A Decades-Long Drop in Teen Births Is Slowing, and Advocates Worry a Reversal Is Coming
Catherine Sweeney, WPLN
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Cicely Wilson’s work doesn’t end when she leaves her day job as a lactation consultant, doula, and child care expert.
Wilson…
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Massive Kaiser Permanente Strike Looms as Talks Head to the Wire
Kaiser Permanente and union representatives pledged to continue negotiating a new contract up until the last minute as the threat of the nation’s latest large-scale strike…
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Officials Agree: Use Settlement Funds to Curb Youth Addiction. But the ‘How’ Gets Hairy.
Video Reporter: Caresse Jackman, InvestigateTV; Video Editor: Scotty Smith, InvestigateTV
When three teenagers died of fentanyl overdoses last year in Larimer County,…
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Pot Boom Wakes Sleepy Dinosaur, Colorado
DINOSAUR, Colo. — There isn’t much to this town a short drive from the national monument of the same name. A couple of gas stations, a liquor store, and a small motel line the…
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Journalist Assesses Federal Push to Remove Medical Debt From Credit Reports
Thank you for your interest in supporting Kaiser Health News (KHN), the nation’s leading nonprofit newsroom focused on health and health policy. We distribute our journalism for…
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Biden Administration to Ban Medical Debt From Americans’ Credit Scores
Noam N. Levey
The Biden administration announced a major initiative to protect Americans from medical debt on Thursday, outlining plans to develop federal rules barring unpaid…
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California Officials Seek ‘CARE’ Without Coercion as New Mental Health Courts Launch This Fall
The first time Heidi Sweeney began hallucinating, the voices in her head told her Orange County’s Huntington Beach was where she would be safe. There, behind the bikini-clad…
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As Younger Children Increasingly Die by Suicide, Better Tracking and Prevention Is Sought
If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
Jason Lance…
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Hep C’s Number Comes Up: Can Biden’s 5-Year Plan Eliminate the Longtime Scourge?
Rick Jaenisch went through treatment six times before his hepatitis C was cured in 2017. Each time his doctors recommended a different combination of drugs, his insurer denied…
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