In Atlanta, a team of mental health experts is bringing care to adolescents whose needs often go unaddressed and misunderstood.Read More
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Women Describe The ‘Extreme’ Physical Pain Of Endometriosis
The symptoms can be constant and intense — but many people with the condition struggle to get their pain taken seriously.Read More
View More Women Describe The ‘Extreme’ Physical Pain Of EndometriosisBrain Implants Have Begun to Restore Functions, but Advances Are Slow
But achieving full-body restoration of movement, as Elon Musk envisions with such devices, is considered far into the future, if at all.Read More
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Iowa Court Blocks State’s ‘Fetal Heartbeat’ Law From Being Reinstated
Judge Celene Gogerty found there was no process for reversing a permanent injunction that blocked the abortion law in 2019.Read More
View More Iowa Court Blocks State’s ‘Fetal Heartbeat’ Law From Being ReinstatedSupreme Court Refuses to Block California’s Ban on Flavored Tobacco
The state’s voters had overwhelmingly supported letting a two-year-old law take effect, and lower courts had refused to put it on hold.Read More
View More Supreme Court Refuses to Block California’s Ban on Flavored TobaccoCongress Weighs Plan for Commission to Investigate Covid Response
The 9/11 Commission prompted a national reckoning over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A bipartisan bill would create an independent panel to investigate the pandemic…
View More Congress Weighs Plan for Commission to Investigate Covid ResponseFentanyl Cuts a Bitter Swath Through Milwaukee
The potent opioid increasingly is afflicting people of color in American cities. “I’ve seen a lot of terrible drugs,” said a veteran drug counselor. “This…
View More Fentanyl Cuts a Bitter Swath Through MilwaukeeBehind New York City’s Shift on Mental Health, a Solitary Quest
The psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey has been advocating tougher involuntary psychiatric treatment policies for 40 years. Now it’s paying off.Read More
View More Behind New York City’s Shift on Mental Health, a Solitary QuestVaping Settlement by Juul Is Said to Total $1.7 Billion
The proposed deal would resolve thousands of lawsuits in multidistrict litigation based in Northern California.Read More
View More Vaping Settlement by Juul Is Said to Total $1.7 BillionA Rural Hospital’s Excruciating Choice: $3.2 Million a Year or Inpatient Care?
A new federal program offers hefty payments to small hospitals at risk of closing. But it comes with a bewildering requirement: to end all inpatient…
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