Health
Maine legalizes assisted suicide
(HealthDay)—Maine has become the eighth state to legalize medically assisted suicide.
Jun 15, 2019
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When Republicans control state legislatures, infant mortality is higher
Net of history, infant and postneonatal mortality rates are substantively higher under Republican-controlled state legislatures than under non-Republican–controlled ones, according to a new study in the American Journal ...
Sep 14, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Florida breaks record with more than 21,000 new COVID cases
Florida reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state's highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic, according to federal health data released Saturday, as its theme park resorts again started asking visitors ...
Aug 1, 2021
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Medications
Psychedelics: What they are, how they work, and why you need to know about them
Last month, nearly 12,000 people gathered in Denver to talk about magic mushrooms (psilocybin), ecstasy (MDMA), ibogaine and ayahuasca, and to discuss the latest scientific research into these and other plant-based or synthetic ...
Jul 14, 2023
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Addiction
California's flavored tobacco ban won't be blocked by supreme court
An attempt to block California's flavored tobacco ban was stopped Monday when the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
Dec 13, 2022
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Ban on flavored vaping may have led teens to cigarettes, study suggests
When San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure banning the sale of flavored tobacco products in 2018, public health advocates celebrated. After all, tobacco use poses a significant threat to public health ...
May 26, 2021
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Medical economics
For people with sickle cell disease, ERs can mean life-threatening waits
Heather Avant always dresses up when she goes to the emergency room.
Oct 23, 2023
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Medical economics
Delicate labor-industry deal in flux as Newsom revisits $25 minimum health wage
Gov. Gavin Newsom is revisiting California's phase-in of a nation-leading $25 minimum wage for health workers in the face of a projected $38 billion deficit, less than three months after he approved the measure. But renegotiating ...
Jan 15, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Expert explains ageism's toll in the age of COVID
Margaret Morganroth Gullette is one of the nation's leading voices on the negative impacts and violence of ageism. Gullette, 81 and a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center of Brandeis University, is the ...
Sep 7, 2022
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Medications
For the first time in five years, opioid overdose deaths declined in NC in 2018
After years of rising deaths from accidental drug overdoses, the body count in North Carolina is finally going down.
Sep 2, 2019
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