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Montana lawmakers Monday narrowly voted down a bill that would have funded suicide screening for middle and high school students.
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State health officials could soon have more oversight of alternative therapeutic youth residential programs. Several of the facilities have been accused of abusing children in recent years.
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If you recently received a nutrition assistance card from the state health department you didn’t apply for, you may not want to throw it out. The cards come from a delayed program to help feed students during the summer.
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Groups suing the state over restrictions barring birth certificate amendments are asking a district court to hold the state health department in civil contempt.
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The House Business and Labor Committee heard testimony on a bill Tuesday that would shorten the training required to serve alcohol to lessen the burden for trainers and trainees.
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More than two dozen health care providers, mental health advocates and Medicaid patients are arguing against a proposed state rule that would further restrict state coverage of abortion. One organization spoke in support of the rule during a public hearing on Thursday.
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The state health department says it will reinstate a rule that bars transgender Montanans from updating the gender markers on their birth certificates. The Montana Supreme Court is now involved in the latest step in a murky legal fight over the policy.
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An early spike in influenza cases is emerging in Montana. That’s in stark contrast to recent years when zero to few cases were reported at this time of the year.
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The amended agreement with Alvarez & Marsal went into effect Oct 1.
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The Montana Department of Health and Human Services is reminding residents that monthly benefits for the nutrition assistance program for women, infants and children, or WIC, increased in October.