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‘False hope’: Families who cheered Newsom’s new mental health court feel let down by it
BOOM. Ronda Deplazes had just gotten out of the shower and placed curlers in her long blond hair when she heard something slam against her front door. Boom. Outside, her son — a man who could fix anything, who loved his family, who never remembered these incidents but always apologized later — was yelling and swearing as he pulled large…
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Siddhalepa takes authentic Lankan Ayurveda medicine to UK through a collaborative – The Island
The full speech delivered by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Parliament (2025-12-19) “Today, we have presented to Parliament the largest supplementary estimate submitted in recent history. On the 5th of this month, following a lengthy debate, this Parliament approved the Budget required for the year 2026. However, within a very short period, we have been compelled to present a supplementary…
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Prison health workers are among the best-paid public employees. Why are so many jobs vacant?
Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars to fill vacant medical and mental health positions at prisons and state hospitals, California has little to show for it, according to a new report from the state auditor. Job vacancy rates have increased since 2019 at the three facilities examined in the audit, as has the state’s reliance on pricey temporary workers.…
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See inside new Keystone Retreat Behavioral Health Center in Ephrata [photos] | Health
Keystone Retreat Behavioral Health Center has opened on the Ephrata site once owned by the now-defunct addiction and mental health facility Retreat. The drug and alcohol treatment center, at 1170 S. State St., celebrated its opening Wednesday with an event hosted by the Northern Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce offering tours and networking opportunities. Keystone Retreat Behavioral Health is owned…
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This is what Canada’s pain medication shortages have been like for chronic pain patients
Amanda Godda has been bedridden since August. That’s when her prescription of acetaminophen with oxycodone was hit by a nationwide supply shortage. Since then, the 42-year-old has gone from working tight deadlines and long days at music festivals to only getting up to make a sandwich or wash herself in the sink. “I’m basically teetering between an eight and nine…
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Ozempic Nation – Canadian Affairs
Read: 5 min It took Alexis Adebanke Ladejobi more than a year to try the weight loss drug Ozempic due to fears about its side effects. “I was very skeptical at first,” said Ladejobi, who lives in Toronto. “I had a nurse practitioner that would tell me, ‘Don’t take it, they all have side effects’.” But after the 46-year-old finally…
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How FDA’s Lax Generic Drug Rules Can Put Patients’ Lives at Risk — ProPublica
Wrapped in a flashy fur coat she’d found at a thrift store for the occasion, Hannah Goetz blew out the candles on her favorite red velvet cheesecake. It was her 21st birthday. The celebration with her family that evening in February 2023 was a milestone not just for her age, but because she was alive. Three and a half years…
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State mental health cuts trigger emergency response in East Idaho | Freeaccess
POCATELLO — Local officials are mobilizing emergency response plans as Idaho’s elimination of specialized mental health programs takes effect, with law enforcement and service providers predicting immediate impacts on public safety and hospitals across East Idaho. The cuts, which took effect Dec. 1, eliminated or significantly reduced six evidence-based programs serving approximately 1,000 of Idaho’s most severely mentally ill residents…
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Inside the FDA’s vaccine uproar
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,” 12 former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec.…
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Scorpion peppers caused him ‘crippling’ pain. Two years later, The ER bill stung him again.
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Maxwell Kruzic said he was in such “crippling” stomach pain on Oct. 5, 2023, that he had to pull off the road twice as he drove himself to the emergency room at Mercy Regional Medical Center…
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