Well being Reporting within the States : NPR

Tim Lillard on the residence he and his late spouse, Ann Picha-Lillard, shared in suburban southeast Michigan. Since her loss of life in 2022, Lillard has made it his mission to go the Protected Affected person Care Act, which might create necessary nurse-to-patient ratios in Michigan hospitals.

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As a part of his pediatric observe, Dr. Safdar Medina treats opioid use dysfunction. Throughout a latest appointment at a clinic in Uxbridge, Mass., Medina switched a teenage affected person’s buprenorphine prescription to an injectable kind and checked in about his faculty and social life.

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Dr. Stefan Friedrichsdorf demonstrates one of many distraction strategies he makes use of for youngsters receiving photographs at UCSF Benioff Kids’s Hospital in San Francisco on Dec. 18.

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Jorge Rubiano exterior a short lived migrant shelter the place he stayed after arriving in Chicago final summer season from Colombia.

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Joslyn Herrera helps purchasers fighting dependancy discover companies on the Santa Fe Restoration Middle. Herrera spent her teenage years fighting opioid dependancy, and says her many stints in juvenile detention did nothing to assist her restoration.

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Yearly, an estimated 100,000 younger adults or adolescents within the U.S. expertise a psychotic episode. Solely 10-20% of them acquire entry to the holistic therapy method really helpful by the Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being because the gold normal of take care of early psychosis, attributable to lack of area or as a result of insurance coverage will not cowl it.

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Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider (proper) interviews comic Tig Notaro about drawing humor from her breast most cancers analysis. Ungerleider is the founding father of Finish Properly, a nonprofit targeted on shifting the American dialog round loss of life. Their dialogue befell in November at Finish Properly’s 2023 convention held in Los Angeles.

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Unionized staff picket exterior the Windfall Neighborhood Well being Facilities on Oct. 12, 2023.

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Graduate scholar researcher Jacquelynn Mornay, with the LSU Faculty of Public Well being, exhibits a noise studying taken beneath the Claiborne Expressway on July 18, 2023, in New Orleans. The decibel ranges are just like that of a bike engine and will trigger everlasting listening to harm after extended publicity.

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Esther Lau testifies on June 20 earlier than the California Senate Judiciary Committee in help of Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo’s invoice permitting teenagers with Medi-Cal protection to hunt remedy with out parental approval.

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Karli (left) and Elmo (proper) seem in Season 51 of Sesame Road. In separate movies and tales out there free of charge on-line, Karli, Elmo and supportive grownup characters focus on how Karli’s mom is in restoration for an unspecified dependancy.

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Intermountain Residential in Helena, Montana, is one a handful of packages within the U.S. offering long-term behavioral well being therapy for youths youthful than 10. Directors lately introduced that staffing shortages are forcing them to downsize from 32 beds to eight, and the power might need to shut fully.

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A social employee prepares to roll out with an officer at Denver Police District 5 on December 21, 2017. Denver has been a mannequin for different cities, together with Philadelphia, making an attempt to create new methods to reply to emergency calls involving psychological sicknesses or drug addictions.

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A #RestoreRoe rally exterior Michigan’s capitol in Lansing in Sept. 2022. Voters overwhelmingly authorized enshrining abortion rights within the state structure later that 12 months.

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Emily Bendt cradles her two-week-old toddler, Willow, at her residence close to Portland, OR in early October 2023. Bendt, a pediatric nurse, carefully adopted the latest approval of the RSV monoclonal antibody Nirsevimab however has been unable to seek out it for her daughter.

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A pediatric dosage of the brand new Moderna COVID vaccine, after a long-awaited cargo lastly arrived on the workplace of Southern Orange County Pediatric Associates. The date the vaccine arrived, Oct. 11, is marked on the field.

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At a signing ceremony in April, Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, formally repealed the state’s 1931 abortion ban. The previous statute was unenforceable after voters enshrined abortion rights within the state structure final November. Now Whitmer is backing extra payments to repeal abortion rules involving paperwork and fee, however one Democratic lawmaker may jeopardize the vote.

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An unidentified lady lies beneath a blanket in a cell within the Flathead County Detention Middle in Kalispell, Montana. She has been held there for practically a 12 months after being discovered mentally unfit to face trial on housebreaking expenses, in line with a jail official.

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Peacemakers have a debrief earlier than concluding their work for the day on the Lincoln Fields residences complicated in Miami, Fla. Lamont Nanton (second from left) is the group’s supervisor and Shameka Pierce (third from left) works with the group.

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Medical assistant Lakeisha Pratt (left,) and receptionist David Bowers put together for a busy day at North Aspect Christian Well being Middle, a safety-net well being middle in Pittsburgh. Even a short lived authorities shutdown may disrupt funding and drive the clinic to chop again.

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