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Proposition 1 includes a $6.4 billion bond to fund treatment and housing for homeless people with severe mental illnesses and addiction. Its approval was considered such a sure thing that most voters and political donors were scarcely aware that opposition existed. After the March 5 election, it took 15 days of tallying mail-in ballots for The Associated Press to determine that the measure had squeaked by.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

California's Medicaid program for low-income people resumes annual eligibility checks that were paused at the height of the covid-19 pandemic. Some Latinos, including Abundis, had only recently gained coverage as the state expanded Medi-Cal to residents without legal residency. California, like other states, resumed eligibility checks last April, and the process is expected to continue through May.
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2 years ago Read more at California Healthline

This article references suicide. Please take caution when reading. For most people, the path to rebuilding a life in the community after incarceration is filled with a variety of obstacles — ones that can be distressing and difficult to overcome. The study is the first since 2007 to evaluate the suicide risk of people released from North Carolina prisons.
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2 years ago Read more at North Carolina Health News

N Engl J Med. 2001;344:581–90. Stevenson DK. Clinical practice guideline Revision: management of hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant 35 or more weeks of gestation. Pediatr Res. 2015;10:1291–346. Bhutani VK, Wong RJ. Bilirubine neurotoxicity in preterm infants: risk and prevention.
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2 years ago Read more at Nature.com

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) published a funding opportunity for research to improve health outcomes. Rural populations experience high rates of many causes of morbidity and disability. Meaningful and sustained improvements in the health of rural populations require effective solutions to address the underlying causes.
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2 years ago Read more at Rethinking Clinical Trials

Global Health Week 2024 will mark the 30th anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo. The ICPD redefined population and development issues by emphasizing that the protection of individual human rights must be at the heart of population programs. Additional panel speakers and information on our global health Week events will be announced here.
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2 years ago Read more at HSPH News

This op-ed is part of the Mental Health Collaborative, a project completed by nine North Carolina college newsrooms to cover mental health issues. To read more stories about mental health, explore the interactive project developed specifically for this collaborative.
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2 years ago Read more at The Daily Tar Heel

WHI participants were excluded from the analysis if they had missing enrollment data on: [1] the 6-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and WHI-OS (n = 93,676) The WHI study is a long-term study focused on strategies for preventing heart disease, breast, and colorectal cancers as well as osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. The study received institutional review board approval with informed consent from all participating clinical
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2 years ago Read more at Nature.com

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev underwent an emergency brain surgery at a private hospital in Delhi on Sunday. The spiritual leader had suffered "life-threatening' bleeding in the skull and is now recovering well, a senior doctor said on Wednesday. He was taken off the ventilator following surgery, the hospital said.
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2 years ago Read more at Hindustan Times

In a recent review published in the journal Trends in Neurosciences, researchers examined the current evidence that emphasizes midlife as a critical period in brain aging, influencing cognitive trajectories and brain health. They recommend using models that account for non-linear changes across a wide age range to distinguish between processes specific to midlife and those that occur uniformly throughout life. Understanding these processes could uncover new biomarkers and interventions for cognitive decline.
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2 years ago Read more at News-Medical.Net