Rise in US preteen suicide rate alarms mental health experts • Stateline

The number of preteens — ages 8 to 12 — who die by suicide in the United States each year is relatively small. But the total in 2025 was 194 — the most since at least 2001, according to preliminary da...

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Rise in US preteen suicide rate alarms mental health experts • New Hampshire Bulletin

The number of preteens — ages 8 to 12 — who die by suicide in the United States each year is relatively small. But the total in 2025 was 194 — the most since at least 2001, according to preliminary…

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Abortion bans led to higher preterm birth rates among Black women, study finds • West Virginia Watch

Black women living in states with abortion bans were more likely to have preterm babies, according to a study published this month.

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Taxpayer dollars flood pregnancy centers. Oversight hasn't followed.

Editor's note: This is the first report in an ongoing series.The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled. Her pregnancy was ectopic, no longer viable, and could ha...

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Taxpayer dollars flood pregnancy centers. Oversight hasn't followed. • Stateline

Editor’s note: This is the first report in an ongoing series. The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled. Her pregnancy was ectopic, no longer viable, and could h...

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Crisis Pregnancy Centers Series | News From The States

Billion Dollar Baby Bump: A States Newsroom 50-state investigation examining the tax records of more than 1,600 crisis pregnancy center organizations nationwide and state and federal budgets found the...

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Crisis Pregnancy Centers Series | News From The States

Billion Dollar Baby Bump: A States Newsroom 50-state investigation examining the tax records of more than 1,600 crisis pregnancy center organizations nationwide and state and federal budgets found the...

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More states are requiring insurers to cover non-opioid pain meds • Stateline

More states are requiring their Medicaid programs and health insurance companies to cover non-opioid pain medications as an alternative to opioids, which can be cheaper for insurers but also more addi...

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Families worry as cost of autism therapy comes under state scrutiny

State Medicaid agencies are struggling to pay for an intensive therapy for children with autism — and looming federal Medicaid cuts are likely to make the problem worse.Parents of children and young…

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Domestic violence in Native communities is focus of new survey • Stateline

Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms. The woman had suffered multiple b...

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Medicaid cuts are likely to worsen mental health care in rural America • Stateline

Medicaid cuts in the massive tax and spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law earlier this month will worsen mental health disparities in rural America, experts say, as patients lose ...

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Residents of historically Black community in Coffee County sue ALDOT over repeated flooding | Alabama Reflector

The lawsuit, filed July 1 in federal court, alleges that the flooding in Shiloh continues to worsen as rainwater erodes the land around US-84.

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Many medical treatments could be affected by Supreme Court transgender ruling • Stateline

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors could have implications well beyond the case.

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Federal changes could end up ‘cutting holes’ in HIV safety net, experts say • Stateline

President Donald Trump’s budget proposal, provisions in the giant tax and spending bill under consideration in the U.S. Senate and delays in federal grant renewal notices are causing troubling uncerta...

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Glaucoma, the Leading Cause of Blindness in Black Americans, Is Often Preventable. But Many Can't Afford Treatment. - Public Health Watch

In South Carolina and other states that have not expanded Medicaid, many patients lack health coverage.

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Glaucoma-related vision loss is often preventable, but many can’t afford treatment • Stateline

Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in Black Americans. Treatment is out of reach for many.

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More states are tracking rape kits. But key support for survivors may be slipping away. • Stateline

After years of pressure over lost or untested sexual assault kits, a growing number of states are adopting systems to track the kits — giving survivors a way to follow their evidence through the justi...

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How client advocates are quietly reshaping criminal defense • Stateline

Across the country, a quiet change in public defense is giving people something the traditional system often doesn't: a path forward. Client advocates are helping people avoid incarceration, access tr...

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‘A purpose in this world’: Older adults fear elimination of program that helps them find work | Alabama Reflector

Congress is considering ending funding for a program that gives lower-income people aged 55 or older on-the-job training.

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'Problematic' MAHA report minimizes success of lifesaving asthma medicines, doctors say • Stateline

Medical experts are dismayed over a federal report’s claim that kids are overprescribed asthma medications, saying it minimizes how many lives the drugs save.

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Guns kill more US children than other causes, but state policies can help, study finds • Stateline

More American children and teens die from firearms than any other cause, but there are more deaths — and wider racial disparities — in states with more permissive gun policies, according to a new stud...

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Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty • Alaska Beacon

Data sovereignty is important amid the health disparities seen in tribal people, rooted in forced assimilation over more than a century.

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Black maternal health advocates, researchers press on amid federal funding cuts • Stateline

In its bid to eliminate federal diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives, the Trump administration has terminated community health grants and closed federal offices that support state effo...

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