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Coverage of the healthcare and mental healthcare industries.
State Rep. Mindi Messmer is circulating a last-minute petition to intervene in the state Public Utilities Commission proceedings relative to the sale of Aquarion Water to Eversource Energy.
Meeting will be Wednesday, Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. at James Mastricola Upper Elementary school in Merrimack.
Reversing course, federal health officials withdrew a proposal that would have required private accrediting organizations to publicly release reports of problems they found in health care facilities.
ProPublica: We’ve heard from 3,100 women who survived life-threatening complications of pregnancy or childbirth. They told us what they wish they had known — and what they would say to other new and expectant mothers.
People who don’t buckle up when they ride in the rear seat because they think it’s safer back there are wrong.
The top five utilities that accumulated/accrued the most violation points as of January to March 2017 in New Hampshire, according to the website: Barkland Acres in Derry, Bethlehem Village District in Bethlehem, Exeter Water Department in Exeter, Tyrol Well A in Intervale, and New Castle Water Works in Portsmouth. Click inside to find full details on New Hampshire and the rest of the nation.
Despite bipartisan agreement on need to take immediate action to address opioid epidemic, President Trump’s Opioid Commission has now missed its second deadline to lay out strategy to combat crisis.
Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, D-NH, today led a bipartisan letter to Congressional appropriators urging $7 million to launch a national health impact study of sites like Pease affected by the U.S. military’s historic use of perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs).
Hospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer.