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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

This year, the state’s efforts to address its inadequate mental health system made progress with expanded facilities and 24/7 assistance programs, but experts say much more work needs to be done to remedy a shortage of psychiatric and behavioral...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — At the end of the second week of fall term classes, roughly 500 members of the Dartmouth College community gathered the evening of Sept. 23 in front of Baker-Berry Library to listen to the college’s president, chaplain and student leaders...

By DAVID BROOKS

A secure facility for 24 patients with mental illness could be operating alongside New Hampshire Hospital in Concord within two years, although many details remain to be worked out.The state will present an online update Thursday night at 6 p.m. about...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

A class-action lawsuit filed last week against Dartmouth-Hitchcock alleges the Lebanon-based health care system mismanaged as much as $1.9 billion in employees’ retirement funds.In the complaint, filed in federal court in Concord on March 18, the...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

A year after Concord Hospital bought Lakes Region General Healthcare, the head of the Franklin and Laconia hospitals has announced his departure, effective at the end of the month. Kevin Donovan was the president and CEO of Lakes Regional General...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

In another attempt to bolster a thinning workforce of nurses, Concord Hospital announced a partnership with New England College that will allow nursing students to be hired during their training.Students enrolled in this program will spend about a...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Last summer, Kevin O’Reilly sat around the Meredith police station with other officers and talked about a trend they noticed on the local news.Stories of police shootings, specifically those that involved someone in a mental health crisis, seemed to...

Dr. Adam Chodosh discusses atrial fibrillation and the Watchman procedure, a treatment alternative to traditional blood thinners for certain patients.What is atrial fibrillation?Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is an irregular quivering, and sometimes...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Jeremy Sheppard returned from visiting his son at the emergency room last week to his quaint brick house in Derry. “He’s really depressed, and it’s going not well for him right now,” he told his wife. “Twelve days in isolation will do that.”Sheppard...

By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — A local man will soon find his story in a wilderness and environmental medical journal after surviving a gruesome attack from a presumably rabid beaver while swimming in a remote Franklin County pond two weeks ago.Mark “Pres” Pieraccini,...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Methamphetamine is flooding into New Hampshire at alarming rates, overwhelming first responders and filling recovery programs.Jon DeLena, an agent at the New England field division of the Drug Enforcement Agency, said the new influx of methamphetamine...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Dawn Tyree was a child back in 1985 when she married the man who impregnated her.A couple years later, after years of physical and sexual abuse, she decided to leave her husband at just 17.As Tyree made her way into the world as a child herself with...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

Cottage Hospital CEO Maria Ryan will step down from her post early next year.Ryan, who has led the 35-bed hospital in Woodsville for 10 years, informed the board on Nov. 19 that she plans to depart on Jan. 30, Dhaniele Duffy, the Woodsville hospital’s...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Gov. Chris Sununu signed a bill last week that will require county correctional facilities to provide Medication-Assisted Treatment for opioid addiction in 2021. Although data is not readily available for county correctional facilities, it is...

By ELLA NILSEN

Filmmaker Todd Wider was first inspired to make a documentary about mental illness when he experienced it firsthand in his hometown of New York City.Wider came home one night to find that a homeless man had broken in because he was cold and trying to...

By ELLA NILSEN

James Mott knew people who tweaked when they used methamphetamine, hearing voices and seeing things that weren’t there.But Mott, who started using methamphetamine as a way to wean himself off heroin, said the synthetic stimulant never made him act...

By ELLA NILSEN

When Dr. Jennifer Madden gets a new transgender patient at her practice, she pays close attention.“Most patients, whether they are seeing you for a sore throat or they’re uncomfortable with their gender, want a doctor willing to listen to them,”...