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SPENCER, N.Y. — The Village of Spencer board has approved a policy designating all municipal grounds as 100% smoke-free. The policy, which was passed in early September, prohibits the use of all tobacco products, cannabis, and vape devices on village-owned properties, including playgrounds and sports fields. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, there is no…
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GLENS FALLS, N.Y. — U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer is urging federal agencies to allocate more resources for monitoring mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses amid a rise in eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) cases in New York, including a recent human death. Schumer has called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to collaborate with the…
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New York State has seen a 10% decrease in drug overdose deaths in recent months, following a national trend, according to the CDC.
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The Mississippi State Department of Health’s Maternal and Infant Health Bureau hosted a maternal health conference in Vicksburg, Miss., focused on educating health-care workers and promoting solutions to Mississippi’s high rates of infant and maternal…
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This article is a collaboration with Healthbeat, a nonprofit newsroom covering public health published by Civic News Company and KFF Health News. A public agency with offices at 26 Federal Plaza notified the General Services Administration of a case of Legionnaires’ disease among one of its employees recently, THE CITY and Healthbeat have learned. The…
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Sedgwick County is coming off a summer COVID wave as it heads into cold and flu season. Health officials hope that surge prompts far more people to sign up for the new COVID vaccine, which is recommended annually for people 6 months and older. Last year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported…
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Nick Romo spent a decade as a pharmacist under the rule of insurance companies and their middlemen. Too often, customers couldn’t get the drugs their doctors prescribed or ran into prices so high they walked away empty-handed. So two years ago, he opened Pharmington Drugs in south Overland Park in rebellion against it all. “I…
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The Colorado Sun partners with Gigafact to investigate viral claims
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A year ago this week, 27 pharmacists walked off their jobs in and around Kansas City to protest understaffing, low technician pay and burdensome workloads at some CVS-owned pharmacies. Their action forced about a dozen Kansas City-area pharmacies and 10 others in outlying areas to close anywhere from a few hours to two full days.…
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Georgia emergency officials opened a week-long Community Recovery Center in a recreation center, using the gym as a place where school employees, students, victims’ families, first responders, and concerned people in the community could connect with c…