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The U.S. Justice Department is launching an effort to combat health care providers who illegally prescribe or distribute opioids across Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. The newly created New England Prescription Opioid Strike Force, or NEPO, comes as overdoses in the region are on the rise, including in New Hampshire, where prosecutors say there has…
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Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, some in the transgender and non-binary community are concerned about their access to abortion rights. Nuri Sherif, a trans non-binary law student at Western New England University in Springfield, said abortion rights have always been a cisgender “woman’s health” issue. “What happens when a trans person comes in…
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There’s been a lot of focus recently on the negative health impacts of burning natural gas indoors, but a new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology sheds light on what’s in the unburned gas piped into millions of homes across the U.S. Researchers sampled natural gas from homes across the Greater Boston area and found 21…
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Editor’s Note: This story was originally published before the June 24 Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that made it a constitutional right to have an abortion. If so, it will be up to each state to determine whether abortion…
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The Supreme Court decision overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on Friday will have little to no immediate impact on access to abortions in Maine. But abortion rights advocates fear — and abortion opponents hope — that could change if the political winds shift in the state, potentially as early as this November. By…
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Editor’s Note: On June 24, the Supreme Court overturned its landmark Roe v. Wade decision, ending nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for people seeking abortions in the U.S. This story, which explains abortion laws in New England, was published in May, after a draft of the court’s decision was leaked. Abortion is likely to remain…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, leaving the question of abortion access to the states. This decision has no immediate effect on abortion access in New Hampshire, though it could open the door for future changes. “Regardless of this Supreme Court decision, access to these services will continue to remain safe, accessible, and legal…
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Valerie Woodhouse is a co-owner of Honeyfield Farm in Norwich, Vt. She was in the second week of launching the organic vegetable farm when the pandemic began. It was a tough time. “That I can safely say was, you know, my lowest point in my own mental health care,” she said. “Just because, you know,…
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Psychiatrists and pediatricians from New England say that children they see in their practice show increased anxiety around climate change. At a webinar Thursday, hosted by the National Alliance of Mental Illness of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Health Care Workers for Climate Action, Elizabeth Pinsky, a child, and adolescent psychiatrist and pediatrician at…
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Tuesday’s mass shooting in a Texas elementary school has left many across the country dealing with feelings of grief and loss. The massacre in Uvalde that left 19 children and two adults dead was the second-deadliest school shooting recorded in the U.S., and it has hit the Latinx community especially hard. “This hits very close…
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