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Earlier this week, the Biden-Harris Administration, through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a final rule intended to protect protected health information (PHI) related to health care services reproductive …
To sum up California law requires insurance plans to cover medically necessary mental health and addiction treatment. This doesn’t always happen. Read this story in Spanish Four years ago, California …
The county reports that it conducted 100 “rapid fitness assessments” in 2023 on mental health evaluations of defendants in jail that took weeks, rather than months. Hillsboro, Oregon County leaders …
North Carolina is violating the rights of mentally ill or disabled people accused of crimes by keeping them in custody longer than it should allow, a new lawsuit claims. The …
A group that includes Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin, Compass Health CEO Tom Sebastian, Sen. Keith Waggoner and Rep. Julio Cortes take their turns during a ceremony celebrating the second phase …
AUGUSTA (WGME) — Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill Friday that expands background checks, makes changes to the yellow flag law and strengthens Maine’s mental health system in the wake …
DETROIT Everyone knows them, kids everywhere love them. Lunchables have been on store shelves and in school lunches everywhere since 1985. But a Consumer Reports study has many parents worried …
Has this been the secret to living without stress? In the never-ending quest to fend off feelings of exhaustion, a craze that has taken over the wellness world has ancient …
(Washington, DC) African governments are falling far short of their commitments to prioritize public spending on health care, contributing to widespread inequalities in health care access and outcomes, said Human …