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Rising drug costs keep Mississippians from necessary mental health treatment

Magdalin Fulce used to take three different prescription medications for anxiety and depression. She doesn’t take any now, not because she doesn’t need it, but because she can’t afford it. Fulce, 24,... Read more »

Arizona doctors not signing death certificates for weeks, bodies left in morgues

(The Center Square) – Two Arizona-based funeral home directors say doctors at some of the state’s largest hospital systems are waiting weeks to sign off on death certificates during the pandemic, leaving... Read more »

Montana coronavirus report

The latest numbers Montana cases As of Thursday, August 13, Montana reports a cumulative total of 5,407 confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 142 new cases since yesterday, 1,389 active cases, and 81 deaths... Read more »

Size matters in air pollution – but it’s not enough

‘(Mass) is indeed a useful metric, but perhaps not enough on its own and laboratory research could help to establish (other) metrics for air quality that are more health-related,’ said Dr Konstantina... Read more »

Missourians to Vote on Medicaid Expansion as Crisis Leaves Millions Without Insurance

This article was originally published by KHN ST. LOUIS — Haley Organ thought she had everything figured out. After graduating from a small private college just outside Boston, she earned her master’s degree, entered the... Read more »

With delays, a ripple of impacts

How slow COVID-19 test results complicate life for public health workers and patients. In mid-June, as Montana’s COVID-19 case count began its summer climb, the Missoula City-County Health Department announced it would... Read more »

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Still Waiting for That Trump Health Plan

President Donald Trump keeps promising to unveil a comprehensive plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, but it keeps not appearing. However, this week he did order an expansion of telehealth for... Read more »

Federal judge hammers Texas officials over failures to improve foster care system

DALLAS — Nearly four years after a federal judge first ruled that Texas violated foster children’s civil rights by placing them in a system where rape and over-medication were the norm, it’s... Read more »

Numbers of new cases of COVID-19 continue to decline with 210 Saturday but nine deaths

The state of New Mexico started the month of August with 210 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Saturday and nine deaths. The numbers of cases have started to trend downward after nearly... Read more »

WATCH: Gov. Lujan Grisham’s 7/9 COVID-19 press conference

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks Thursday, June 11, 2020, during an online news conference addressing New Mexico’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the Capitol. Update: See the recap of the press conference... Read more »