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Remembering MLK amid infectious greed

King saw the labor movement as essential — and the No. 1 labor issue is the predatory healthcare system

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California hospitals had to put charity care rules on their websites months ago. Some didn't do it

LOS ANGELES — To help patients who are financially strapped, California lawmakers decided to stiffen state requirements for hospitals to offer free or discounted care.

Los Angeles Times

Abortion is legal in Illinois. In Wisconsin, it's nearly banned. So clinics teamed up

After Wisconsin left an 1849 near-total abortion ban in place, some providers began commuting to Illinois to treat patients. These Planned Parenthood partnerships could be a model for the future.

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They lost Medicaid when paperwork was sent to a pasture, signaling the mess to come

Tennessee expects to soon disenroll about 300,000 people from Medicaid. But families like the Lesters have been entangled in bureaucracy and clerical mistakes, causing them to unfairly lose coverage.

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Montana clinics preemptively restrict out-of-state patients' access to abortion pills

Montana is an island of legal abortion, but four of the state's five clinics now restrict abortion pills from people in states with trigger bans to shield themselves and patients from legal attacks.

WEKU

'My body, my choice': How vaccine foes co-opted the abortion rallying cry

Anti-vaccine advocates have repurposed a catchy, succinct, and potent slogan. Its unlikely source: the reproductive rights movement, which has been linked to the phrase for more than 50 years.

WEKU

Dogs are sniffing out disease in animals vital to traditions of the Blackfeet tribe

Montana's Blackfeet Nation is experimenting with a new way to detect chronic wasting disease in animals and toxic substances in plants used by tribal members for food and cultural practices.

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California may require labels on pot products to warn of mental health risks

A proposed bill would require cannabis products to carry large warnings, similar to cigarettes. But the state's legal pot industry says more rules make it harder to compete with the illicit market.

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More states are allowing students to take mental health days off

While a growing number of states are trying to address the increasing mental health crisis among youths, many schools are woefully short of therapists and the budget to hire them.

WEKU

Tennessee nurse convicted in lethal drug error sentenced to three years probation

RaDonda Vaught's prosecution was widely condemned by nurses, who said it set a dangerous precedent that would worsen the nursing shortage and make them less forthcoming about admitting mistakes.

WEKU

A mother left a Missouri ER before her son saw a doctor for his burned hand. Her family was billed $1,012.

‘People always told me to avoid the ER in America unless you are really dying,’ father Dhaval Bhatt said

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