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The Colorado Psychedelic Mushroom Experiment Has Arrived

KFF Health News

The National Institute on Drug Abuse , part of the National Institutes of Health, says the risk of mental health problems caused by ingesting mushrooms in a supervised clinical setting is low, but may be higher outside of a clinical setting. health secretary, that his “mind is open to the idea of psychedelics for treatment.”

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Child care is key to health care after Helene, regional health providers say

NC Health News

By Liz Bell Education NC Health care employers in Western North Carolina joined the multiple sectors calling for child care solutions at a legislative summit at UNC-Asheville earlier in March. More than half of those professionals contacted by the organization say child care is the reason they are not working, Bryant said.

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What’s Up, Docs

The Health Care Blog

and I have no indication that there have been any differences in the care due to those training differences. The first osteopathic medical school was founded in 1892, by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, as an effort to reform the highly variable medical education of the time. trained D.O.s I’ve had physicians who have been M.D.s

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Raspberry Pi Health Care

The Health Care Blog

The Foundation is particularly focused on engaging young people: We engage millions of young people in learning computing and digital making skills through a thriving network of clubs and events, and through partnerships with youth organizations. Raspberry Pi is here to say that, no, we can be those experts. ———-.

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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

To illustrate this, researchers highlighted the impact that overadjustment would have on their total effect of interest ( educational inequalities in health among people with chronic kidney disease ) by building various models with different levels of adjustment and explicitly comparing the results.

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Beyond Stigma: Why Addressing Maternal Mental Health Means Confronting Systemic Failures

The Health Care Blog

By EMILY JOHNSON Imagine you’re an executive at a large health system in a major metropolitan area. Its urgent: one of your employees–who was also a patient and a member of the organization–has unexpectedly died by suicide. You believed they were on the path to being a strong leader in health care.

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An Ice Rink To Fight Opioid Crisis: Drug-Free Fun vs. Misuse of Settlement Cash

KFF Health News

They provided free entry for students who completed the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) ” said Herrington, who is now in long-term recovery and works for a community mental health center, as well as a regional coalition to address substance use. curriculum, recovery program participants, and foster families.