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In a controversial move, the vaccine advisory group reversed a recommendations for universal immunizing of newborns intended to protect them from a virus that attacks the liver.
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Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.
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With a new flu virus variant circulating, scientists fear more sickness this winter. The vaccine may be slightly less effective, but doctors still urge getting one ASAP.
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State lawmakers passed a bill to deregulate New Hampshire’s meat market, which they acknowledge could defy federal food safety laws and carry risks for farmers and consumers.
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A legislative committee met this week with health department officials over the state’s plan to meet the new federal work requirement mandate passed earlier this year.
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This is the third in a three-part series by the NH Bulletin on New Hampshire’s intellectual and developmental disability care system.
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Scott Kirsner, a columnist with our editorial partner MassLive, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss a recent trip to the lab and the future of robotic caregivers.
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In 2022, a man with disabilities was found dead in the woods. The state was supposed to protect him.At the time of his death, Stephen “Stevie” Weidlich Jr. in a home run by PathWays with a live-in caregiver, a service people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are legally entitled to receive through Medicaid and other state and federal dollars.
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The state’s insurance commissioner traveled to Carroll County to hear senior’s worries about reductions in Medicare Advantage plans and fears that health care tax credits may not be extended
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The federal funding should support recipients of WIC through the Thanksgiving holiday
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Due to the ongoing government shutdown, federally-funded nutrition programs have been interrupted.
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The state and plaintiffs presented Wednesday in a class action lawsuit alleging the state hasn’t appropriately managed a program to help people with disabilities live at home rather than in an institution.