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By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state has spent millions to expand mental health treatment in the last two years. Yet those who need it are still waiting. In emergency rooms, some for days. At home for a mobile crisis team that’s an hour-plus away. For a counseling appointment....

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Reproductive health care centers warned lawmakers Thursday that a bill requiring they do a second audit of how they spend public funds would leave them less money to provide basic health care to low-income patients. State law already requires the...

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The number of Granite State students up to date on the several vaccines the state mandates for school attendance is going in the wrong direction, health experts say. The trend is playing out nationally too, the Centers for Disease Control and...

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The four offers the state received for the 220-acre former Laconia State School property ranged widely, from a request for the state to donate the site for community sports fields to proposals of multi-use developments, each with a unique focus. One...

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While lawmakers have filed over 800 bills addressing big issues such as abortion, education reform, climate change, and parental rights, their top priority will be passing a budget by July.Gov. Chris Sununu, whose proposal is due by Feb. 15, has...

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The state’s purchase of Hampstead Hospital last year for a behavioral health campus cost the town of Hampstead nearly $178,000 in annual property taxes. An item before the Executive Council Wednesday would replace that full amount with federal money...

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Individuals and families have just a few days left before the Jan. 15 deadline to sign up for free or low-cost health insurance through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace. Insurance officials have been concerned that the public does not know more...

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A recent federal rule change will expand access to abortion care by allowing pharmacies, no longer just clinics, to dispense abortion pills, which can be used to terminate a pregnancy up to 11 weeks. But it’s local providers who may give even greater...

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Lawmakers know the Department of Health and Human Services will not meet its March 1 deadline for closing the Sununu Youth Services Center and replacing it with a smaller, more therapeutic setting for at-risk youth. The question will be whether they...

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A Newmarket lawmaker has withdrawn a bill that would have added as much as a $15 hourly charge to search for, redact, and provide public records requested under the state’s right-to-know law. Currently the law allows public offices to charge only for...