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Mental Health Friday: 2021-07-02 – Amphetamine dependence

  Today’s Topic: Amphetamine dependence On Mental Health Friday, we post, in alphabetical order, one per week, information on mental health disorders. Mental Health Friday is for informational purposes only, and is in no way meant to diagnose, treat or cure any disease. Please do not self diagnose and seek professional help for what ails […]

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How One Rural Town Without a Pharmacy Is Crowdsourcing to Get Meds

How One Rural Town Without a Pharmacy Is Crowdsourcing to Get Meds Markian Hawryluk July 1, 2021 WALDEN, Colo. — The building that once housed the last drugstore in this town of fewer than 600 is now a barbecue restaurant, where pit boss Larry Holtman dishes out smoked brisket and pulled pork across the same […]

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How the Most Common Form of Dwarfism Impacts Families

How the Most Common Form of Dwarfism Impacts Families (StatePoint) Though it is the most common form of dwarfism, occurring in one out of every 25,000 births, achondroplasia is often misunderstood as a condition only affecting one’s height. Beyond disproportionate short stature, achondroplasia is associated with a number of serious health complications, sometimes resulting in […]

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Desperate for Home Care, Seniors Often Wait Months With Workers in Short Supply

Desperate for Home Care, Seniors Often Wait Months With Workers in Short Supply Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News June 30, 2021 CASTINE, Maine — For years, Louise Shackett has had trouble walking or standing for long periods, making it difficult for her to clean her house in southeastern Maine or do laundry. Shackett, 80, no […]

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Doctors’ Lobby Scores ‘Major Victory’ on Bill to Hold Physicians Accountable

Doctors’ Lobby Scores ‘Major Victory’ on Bill to Hold Physicians Accountable Samantha Young   SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The board that licenses and disciplines doctors in California is failing to hold bad actors accountable, endangering patients in the process. That’s the verdict of state lawmakers and patient advocates who have been working for years to reform […]

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A Hospital Charged $722.50 to Push Medicine Through an IV. Twice.

A Hospital Charged $722.50 to Push Medicine Through an IV. Twice. Rae Ellen Bichell June 28, 2021 Claire Lang-Ree was in a lab coat taking a college chemistry class remotely in the kitchen of her Colorado Springs, Colorado, home when a profound pain twisted into her lower abdomen. She called her mom, Jen Lang-Ree, a […]

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