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- Residents Unaware of Cancer-Causing Toxin in AirFederal data show an increased cancer risk to neighborhoods across the country around plants that emit a gas called ethylene oxide, which is used to sterilize medical equipment.
- How Grief Shows Up In Your BodyThe sadness and other emotions you experience with grief can have a physical effect on you, too.
- ‘Grief: Beyond the 5 Stages’ Survey MethodologyThe WebMD survey, "Grief: Beyond the 5 Stages," was done by AmeriSpeak®, which is funded and operated by the independent research institution NORC at the University of Chicago.
- The Grief Experience: Survey Shows It's ComplicatedA new WebMD survey finds many people are experiencing grief for more than a year and that losing friendships can cause intense grief similar to when someone dies.
- Slumber Solutions: What Can Help You Sleep?Specialists say it’s time to treat sleeplessness itself first, then worry about the underlying cause. And they’ll suggest a couple of treatments that are helping many get the rest they desperately need.
- Products Promising Better Sleep Blanket the MarketCan you buy a good night’s sleep? Some sellers say they have just the thing. But do medical experts agree?
- America's Sleepless Nights: In Pursuit of RestIt's been called a public health crisis. But what's behind the explosion of sleepless nights for tens of millions of us?
- Pregnant Women Face Risk Despite Federal ER LawPregnant women are among the groups of patients that may not get adequate care when they go to a hospital emergency room, in violation of a federal law created to protect them. .
- Investigation: Lives Lost Amid ER ViolationsAn investigation by WebMD and Georgia Health News finds that hospitals are breaking a law that requires them to provide emergency care to patients who need it, sometimes with deadly results.
- Your Rights in the Emergency RoomA federal law guarantees a certain level of medical care to anyone who comes to an emergency department, including a proper screening exam to determine if a patient has a medical emergency.
- How We Reported This StoryWebMD and Georiga Health News used documents and data obtained through Open Records requests along with interview for its investigation on hospital EMTALA violations.
- Obamacare Enrollee Numbers Aren't Falling: ReportAbout 8.3 million Americans now carry health insurance plans purchased through an Obamacare state-based marketplace, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
- More Primary Care Practices Aim to Treat the MindThe reality is that many people will go without mental health care if it doesn’t come from their primary care doctor, so integrating mental and behavioral health care into doctor practices makes sense, according to the American Psychological Association.
- FDA Approves First of New Migraine DrugsThe FDA has approved the first in a new class of migraine drugs, called CGRP inhibitors, that aim to head off fight painful migraine headaches before they start.
- Opioid Addiction: Getting Robbed While Getting HelpTrying to overcome drug addiction is difficult enough, but America's opioid epidemic has led to an explosion in treatment centers and clinics that might have dubious practices.
- Beyond Opioids: The Future of Pain ManagementThe federal government as well as the drug industry are pumping millions of dollars into research to find pain medication that works as well as opioids but aren't addictive.
- Q&A: What Should We Be Doing About the Opioid Crisis?Kennedy has also tried to draw the connection between addiction and mental health. While in the U.S. House of Representatives, Kennedy sponsored legislation that requires insurance companies to treat mental illness, depression and addiction the same as they treat illnesses of the body. The bill, known as the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, was signed into law in 2008.
- Opioids: A Crisis Decades In the MakingA simple letter to the editor in 1980 opened the way for America's opioid crisis.
- Q&A: What Are We Doing About the Opioid Crisis?Scientists at the NIH, the nation’s chief medical research agency, are working on solutions for addressing the public health crisis by investigating new and better ways to prevent opioid abuse, to treat opioid use disorders and to manage pain.
- What Gave This Little Boy Lead Poisoning? At 16 months, Austin Poteet was diagnosed with lead poisoning. The state of Georgia's slow response may have put others at risk.
- There’s Lead in That?!Lead still exists in many common household items such as costume jewelry, toys, furniture and clothes. How worried should you be?
- Lax Oversight Weakens Lead Testing of WaterThis story examines how water utilities in Georgia test for lead in water.
- Looking for Georgia's Lead Service LinesMany water utilities, including in Georgia, have lost track of where they have lead service lines.
- Her Home Showed High Lead; She Wasn't ToldLaura had her water tested for lead. She got the results almost two years later.
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