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North Dakota Health and Human Services announced the recipients for its suicide prevention funding initiative this past week. The groups are: Minot State University’s Center for Persons with Disabilities, Peer Vision for Mental Health, Haugen Performance Consulting, Eyes on the Horizon Consulting.
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1 year ago Read more at KFYR

The Biden administration’s new healthcare mandate is a vast overreach that turns medicine upside-down. ADF attorneys filed a formal comment in 2022 in opposition to the rule. The best medicine suggests that procedures aimed at altering one’s appearance as a man or a woman are dangerous and have unknown long-term effects.
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1 year ago Read more at ADF Media

Black Patients With Ovarian Cancer Had Lower-Quality End-of-Life Care, Study Says A study in Cancer Research Communications found non-Hispanic Black patients receive lower-quality end-of life (EOL) care compared with non-HIspanic White patients. They stress the need for standardized EOL care regardless of race and call for further research to address barriers to quality care. Notable topics included research on SDOH and disease outcomes.
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1 year ago Read more at AJMC.com Managed Markets Network

Legislation creating a hospital cost review board passed the Delaware House Thursday. Speaker Valerie Longhurst’s bill passed 21-16 on a near party-line vote. Democrats took a short break, came back into session and then used a procedural maneuver to end debate.
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1 year ago Read more at WHYY

NCDHHS announces $22 million investment to expand community crisis center and peer respite care. This is part of an ongoing effort to transform North Carolina's behavioral health crisis response system. The investment will increase the state's capacity for community-based crisis treatment by 20 percent.
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1 year ago Read more at WTVD-TV

A new study led by Hasina Samji, a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, explored the role of modifiable community- and societal-level factors in youth mental health and well-being. The study drew from the 2022 Youth Development Instrument survey of more than 8,800 Grade 11 students in B.C. schools. Adverse childhood experiences include verbal, physical and sexual abuse, emotional and physical abuse, domestic violence, caregiver mental illness, incarceration, substance use and divorce
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1 year ago Read more at Medical Xpress

Utah is cited as one of the top five worst states for mental health. According to a report of publicly available state data, individuals with disabilities experience higher rates of depression than people without disabilities in Utah. The Beehive State is built on helping each other and in this vein, each of us can do more to make our communities more inclusive.
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1 year ago Read more at Salt Lake Tribune

Spotify chief Daniel Ek saw the industry as a bloated and inefficient colossus in need of disrupting. He was busy taking on Apple, YouTube and Amazon Music in the streaming wars. In his spare time, Mr. Ek pored over medical journals.
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1 year ago Read more at The New York Times

The first attempt to win government approval of a psychedelic drug for mental health treatment is generating skepticism about its clinical trials. A recent independent analysis questioned the integrity of patient studies that are being used to support the Food and Drug Administration application for MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. In other words, the trial was not “blinded” for purposes of comparing the drug’s effect, which undermines the results.
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1 year ago Read more at The Washington Post

Senate Bill 240 and House Bill 359 would allow probate judges to consider substance abuse disorder along with mental health issues when it comes to involuntary commitments. SB240 now heads to Governor Ivey’s desk to be signed into law.
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1 year ago Read more at WBRC