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‘It’s important to struggle for the people who paid that price.’

The origins of Hidden Battles can be traced to June 10, 2012, when founder Scott Hyder drove to his brother’s home in Pelham, N.H., and found he had taken his own life.

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N.H. families at risk of homelessness if US defaults on federal debt

“It’s terrifying,” a New Hampshire resident said during a roundtable hosted by Senator Jeanne Shaheen. “I don’t know a single person who wouldn’t be impacted in some way.”

A multivitamin a day may keep your memory from fading, Boston researchers say

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Columbia University said that multivitamins improved the memory of older adults.

Baby boom: Nearly a dozen nurses in the surgical services unit are pregnant at a New Hampshire hospital

Ten registered nurses, nurse anesthetists, surgical technologists, anesthesia technicians, and nurse practitioners are expecting at the hospital in Dover.

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Learning to treat long COVID could help those struggling with ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, too
Some experts say the current crisis of long COVID is related to our government’s neglect of similar post-acute infection chronic illnesses like ME/CFS in decades past.

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Judge: N.H. has a year to stop holding psychiatric patients in emergency rooms
A federal judge issued an order Wednesday after giving the state and hospitals time to submit proposed orders or a timeline for how they would develop an order together. But both sides couldn’t come to an agreement.

N.H. House authorizes Medicaid expansion to help more people get access to health care
Lawmakers defeated attempts to add a sunset date for Medicaid expansion in 2029, add a work requirement, and require drug testing.

Globe NH | Morning ReportThe push for Medicaid expansion in N.H.: ‘Healthy people are employable people’
Medicaid expansion started in 2014 after the Affordable Care Act was passed. Since then, it’s helped more than 219,000 Granite Staters, according to the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute.

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A teen’s quest to improve mental health education in N.H.

“Why aren’t students being given the knowledge they need to handle situations like these?” wondered Loreley Godfrey, a member of the Governor’s Youth Advisory Council on Substance Misuse and Prevention.

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70 percent now ineligible as Medicaid ‘unwinding’ begins in New Hampshire

The state expects the number of people deemed ineligible to drop in the coming months because the initial focus has been on people who have not used their benefits for the past year, are no longer in touch with the department, or are known to no longer qualify financially.

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Celebrating Earth Day in New Hampshire

Here are just a few of the Earth Day events happening around New Hampshire this weekend.

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Signs of protest in N.H.: ‘Do vulnerable kids have rights?’

There’s not much room for context or explication. Whatever they scrawled in marker points to the crux of the controversy as protesters see it, most recently in regards to Senate Bill 272.

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Working to fill the gaps in transgender health care

A pediatric endocrinologist and an endocrinology nurse practitioner discuss their work at New Hampshire’s only pediatric and adolescent transgender health program.

New Hampshire AG calls for more transparency by state medical board, including possibly listing malpractice settlements of doctors

In a report released Friday, Attorney General John Formella’s office also recommended that the New Hampshire Board of Medicine, which oversees physicians, become more transparent by publicly posting the names of physicians who receive “letters of concern.”

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New Hampshire Senate rejects lifting abortion penalties

The Republican-led New Hampshire Senate also rejected adding an explicit right to abortion up to 24 weeks to state law. Both bills had passed the House.

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Greater transparency sought from N.H. medical board after Globe investigation

Lawmakers are mulling a bill in response to a Spotlight series that found New Hampshire has one of the least transparent medical boards in the country.