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Efforts to improve addiction care in jails and prisons are underway across the country. But a rural Alabama county with one of the nation’s highest overdose rates shows how change is slow.
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As three years of pandemic stress accelerated an ongoing nationwide mental health crisis, peer respite programs diverted patients from overburdened ERs, psychiatric institutions and behavioral therapists.
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On Tuesday, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act began, requiring employers to provide “reasonable accommodations.” But the new law has a big hole.
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As evidence supporting medication treatment for opioid addiction mounts, judges, district attorneys and law enforcement officials in rural America are increasingly open to it after years of insisting on abstinence only.
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Non-Hispanic Black women — regardless of income or education level — die at nearly three times the rate of non-Hispanic white women.
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They offer basic care traditionally provided by dentists, but opposition from interest groups and the profession’s relative newness mean more than two-thirds of states don’t yet have them.
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The number of doctors of osteopathy is surging, and more than half of them practice in primary care, including in rural areas hit hard by doctor shortages.
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Family planning clinics are getting caught between state abortion bans and a federal requirement to refer patients for abortion care on request.
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Advocates for improving rural health pushed for the CDC to extend its rural health focus. They hope the Office of Rural Health will commit to research and provide analyses that lead to good policies.
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They can no longer can be denied lifesaving care, including surgeries for heart defects. But now, aging adults with Down syndrome face a health system unprepared to care for them.