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Long waiting lists, long drives and costly care hinder many kids’ access to mental health care | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  The pandemic has been tough, but the return to in-person schooling has also been emotionally difficult for Mary Norris’ 12-year-old daughter. Norris says her daughter was bullied relentlessly at the school she attended last year in Fresno, California, near where her father lives. So she transferred to a school in Madera, where […]

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2021 US firearm homicide and suicide rates were highest since the 1990s, CDC data shows | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  US firearm homicide and suicide rates each increased by more than 8% from 2020 to 2021, according to data published Thursday in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. CDC researchers estimated that there were over 20,000 firearm homicides and over 26,000 firearm suicides in the

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How Florida residents can stay safe in Hurricane Ian’s aftermath | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  The storm may have moved out, but Hurricane Ian’s impacts are far from over. After tearing through the Caribbean, it slammed into the southwest Florida coast as a Category 4 hurricane on Wednesday, September 28, causing widespread devastation – and more than 100 fatalities in the state. (Ian then slowed as it

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100 days post-Roe: Clinics in 14 of 15 states have stopped providing abortion care, survey finds | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  It’s been 100 days since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, undoing constitutional protections for abortion access. Many states immediately banned the procedure. A new survey by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health nonprofit, shows how consequential that June 24 decision has been. The survey found that among 15 states that

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Airline passengers arriving to the US from Uganda will be routed through five airports for Ebola screening | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  All US-bound airline passengers who have been in Uganda in the 21 days before their arrival will be routed to one of five US airports for enhanced Ebola screening, the US Embassy in Uganda said Thursday. Starting at 11:59 p.m. ET Thursday, passengers will be routed to New York’s JFK airport; Liberty

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NFL, players union aim to release new concussion protocols before Thursday’s game, source says | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  According to a source familiar with discussions between the NFL and the NFL Players Association over changes to the league’s concussion policy, updates to the concussion protocol could come as early as Thursday. “The urgency on getting it done before tomorrow is that we’ll have new protocols heading into Thursday night’s game,

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More than 2.5 million US middle and high school students say they currently use e-cigarettes, research finds | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  About 2.55 million middle and high school students in the US currently use e-cigarettes, researchers say, based on responses to a survey conducted earlier this year. Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration looked at responses from the 2022 National Youth Tobacco

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Covid-19 boosters could prevent about 90,000 US deaths this winter, but only if more people get them, analysis suggests | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  Covid-19 vaccinations could save thousands of lives and billions of dollars this winter. A new analysis suggests that if more people in the United States get their booster by the end of the year, about 90,000 Covid-19 deaths could be prevented this fall and winter. But if booster vaccinations continue at their

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90% of US adults say mental health is a crisis in the United States, CNN/KFF poll finds | CNN

[ad_1] CNN  —  An overwhelming majority of people in the United States think the country is experiencing a mental health crisis, according to a new survey from CNN in partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation. Nine out of 10 adults said ​they believed that there’s a mental health crisis in the US today. Asked to

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