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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Often Go Untreated for Parents on Medicaid
The News For parents struggling with mental health or substance use disorders, access to treatment can often mean the difference…
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Opinion
We Must Address New York City’s Mental Health Crisis
In September 1958, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed with a seven-inch steel letter opener. He had…
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England Limits Youth Gender Medications, Part of Big Shift in Europe
Five European countries have recently restricted hormone treatments for adolescents with gender distress. They have not banned the care, unlike…
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Food
Large Scientific Review Confirms the Benefits of Physical Touch
Premature babies especially benefited from skin-to-skin contact, and women tended to respond more strongly than men did.
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Opinion
Regulating Opioid Prescriptions
Pain management is an inexact science; there is plenty of blame to go around for the abuse of such drugs.
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Food
4 Things You Need to Know About Health Care Cyberattacks
Despite the explosion in ransomware hacks like the one against Change Healthcare, regulation is spotty and few new safeguards have…
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Opinion
Why Has Obamacare Worked?
We’ve just passed the 14th anniversary of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. the Affordable…
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Opinion
For a Firefighter Struggling With Trauma, Ketamine Therapy Offers Hope
OpinionSupported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENTFor a Firefighter Struggling With Trauma, Ketamine Therapy Offers Hope March 26, 2024, 5:00 a.m. ETShare full…
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Opinion
Obamacare Is in Grave Danger, Again
Are you better off than you would have been 14 years ago? If you’re one of the millions of Americans…
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Opinion
The Health Moonshot Biden Can Campaign On
I began my public health career more than 20 years ago, at a time when H.I.V. was ravaging many countries…