During the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 1,200 state psychiatric hospital employees left their positions, and just over half that number have been replaced, according to state officials.
Mar 12, 2024
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Responding to new research on the rising incidence of colorectal cancer among younger adults, some states are trying to boost public awareness of the deadly disease with a focus on Black and rural residents.
Mar 12, 2024
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The cost to American families of caring for a child with a mental health condition rose by almost a third between 2017 and 2021, a new report finds, to an average of $4,361 per year.
Mar 11, 2024
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It was the late '90s, and Tania Barham, future associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado Boulder, was in Yemen, working as an economist for the World Bank, which had teamed up with UNICEF to improve that ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Each year between 200,000 and 270,000 children and youth enter foster care placements with child welfare services, and many more children receive child welfare services while remaining in their parent's care, according to ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Surviving childhood cancer does not always mean a clean bill of health, as the treatments that eradicate those cancers can put adult survivors at risk of new cancers and other serious health problems. Despite the existence ...
Mar 11, 2024
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One in four older adults take aspirin at least three times a week, mostly in hopes of preventing heart attacks and strokes, a new poll shows.
Mar 7, 2024
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Health officials in New Jersey are investigating a possible outbreak of the mumps. A cluster of cases of the contagious virus quickly spread among an eight-person family in Hunterdon County, the state department of health ...
Mar 7, 2024
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Declining fertility rates and aging populations in Western nations have recently set off alarm bells, but continued global population growth will actually raise the pressure billions more people place on a destroyed environment, ...
Mar 6, 2024
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the country's first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor for type 2 diabetes.
Mar 6, 2024
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