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Finding life through loss

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Why Transgender Health Care is Primary Care

by Ivy Hill January 29, 2018September 16, 2020
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Many tactics, but no cheap solutions to mental health crisis in Columbus County

by Sammy Feldblum December 21, 2017October 27, 2020
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Schools witness fallout from behavioral health crisis

by Sammy Feldblum December 14, 2017October 27, 2020
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Ensuring Crisis: Health System Pushes Mentally Ill towards Emergency Treatment

by Sammy Feldblum December 11, 2017October 27, 2020
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Law enforcement scrambles to offset mental health shortfalls

by Sammy Feldblum December 7, 2017October 27, 2020
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To battle opioids, county turns to better policy and hope

by Sammy Feldblum December 4, 2017October 27, 2020
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Mental health care failing, the economy and opioids deal a crushing blow to many

by Sammy Feldblum November 30, 2017October 27, 2020
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A Republican backup plan for killing Obamacare

by Austyn Gaffney November 20, 2017September 16, 2020
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Virginia's new needle exchange law may limit access in hard-hit areas

by Sarah Schwartz November 15, 2017September 16, 2020
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Two poems: "Job 9:20, America, 2017" and "They Found an Underwater Forest in Alabama"

by Jeremy Ray Jewell September 20, 2017December 3, 2020
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My son's death could have been prevented under the Affordable Care Act

by Leslie Boyd July 23, 2017October 1, 2020
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Editorial: Saving Southern lives means standing up for Medicaid

by Scalawag Editors July 9, 2017April 16, 2021
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Beyond the wall

by Lyle C. May July 3, 2017October 1, 2020
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Your neighborhood midwife, Afua Hassan

by William Black April 7, 2017September 16, 2020
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Kentucky should move forward, not backward, on healthcare access

by Brandi Jones and Mallika Sabharwal January 12, 2017September 16, 2020
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Could Zika overrun the South?

by Ali McGhee March 24, 2016September 16, 2020
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Before I let go: on Houston, mental illness, and family

by Brian Foster March 22, 2016December 3, 2020
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North Carolina prisoners are dying in custody

by Danielle Purifoy and Matt Whitt February 25, 2016July 2, 2021
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Race, rubella, and the long road to abortion reform

by Cynthia R. Greenlee February 18, 2016October 27, 2020
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Medical racism in the 21st century

by Zack Wortman October 1, 2015September 16, 2020

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