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Marin Wolf | The Dallas Morning News (TNS)DALLAS — The woman knew there would be blood, but she hadn’t expected...

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Confused By All Of The Mental Health Crisis Response Options? Here’s What’s Available In The LA Region

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When a person living with mental illness is in crisis — the kind that requires some kind of intervention —...

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Thousands of Children Got Tested for Lead With Faulty Devices: What Parents Should Know

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A company that makes tests for lead poisoning has agreed to resolve criminal charges that it concealed for years a...

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Push for defibrillators in schools becomes personal

Ariel Cohen | (TNS) CQ-Roll CallMatthew Mangine and Rep. Andy Barr are tied together by unimaginable loss and one singular,...

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The chicken and egg problem of fighting another flu pandemic

Arthur Allen | (TNS) KFF Health NewsEven a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set...

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California Becomes Latest State To Try Capping Health Care Spending

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California’s Office of Health Care Affordability faces a herculean task in its plan to slow runaway health care spending.The goal...

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Psychoactive drugs are having a moment. The FDA will soon weigh in

Dawn Megli | (TNS) KFF Health NewsLori Tipton is among the growing number of people who say that MDMA, also...

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A woman’s lungs were filled with cancer; doctors worried if treatment was ethical. How she lived.

Cyndia Sanchez is back teaching cycling classes after a devastating bout with cancer that filled her lungs with tumors so...

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Could current COVID vaccines protect against future outbreaks? New study offers hope

Irene Wright | The Charlotte Observer (TNS)Before March 2020, it was hard to imagine a global pandemic in the modern...

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After Years In Decline, US Drowning Deaths Are Rising Again

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