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Coverage of the healthcare and mental healthcare industries.
Kevin Gearhart, who goes by the name Kelly now that she is transitioning from male to female, is being held with men at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison in Concord.
In the early 1970s, a Johnson & Johnson official posed a question that haunts the company today. If Johnson’s Baby Powder contained asbestos at a level of, say, 1 percent, how much of the cancer-causing substance would a baby inhale when dusted with the powder?
If you need to get warm, call 2-1-1 for the most current information about the closest warming center.
Families In Transition was appointed as receiver of Serenity Place, a New Hampshire voluntary corporation located in Manchester.
DOC consumes massive amounts of the budget with very little transparency. In addition to correctional activities, they are also in the health care business. But they are not subject to any inspections or reviews by any outside agencies. They determine it, administer it and decide its effectiveness.
Corrections Officers and medical responders unsuccessfully attempted life saving measures on Phillip Borcuk early Tuesday morning after responding to his cell where he was alone, when they heard him engaging in self-injurious behavior.
In New Hampshire, radio show host Arnie Arnesen became excited about the idea after featuring the ProPublica story and the executive director of SafeNetRx on “The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen.” She pitched the drug donation idea to New Hampshire Sen. Dan Feltes, D-Concord, urging him to make it happen in New Hampshire.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the lead Democrat on the Commerce, Justice & Science Appropriations Subcommittee, announced that the Community Oriented Policing Services Office, which is managed by the Department of Justice, has awarded the New Hampshire Department of Safety, Division of State Police $688,856 through the Anti-Heroin Task Force Program to help combat the opioid epidemic.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, citing unspecified “potentially sensitive information,” is declining to release a document it drafted several years ago that details how it would respond to a major hurricane in Puerto Rico.