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Poor sleep can cause or worsen mental illness. Which treatments work and what's just hype?

Poor sleep can cause or worsen mental illness. Which treatments work and what's just hype?

Sleep disorders can cause serious physical and mental health problems. Treatments are aplenty, from gummies, lotions and meditation to apps, sounds, C-PAPs and medications. There are so many medical, over the counter, and influencer-peddled ways to treat sleep problems. What’s hype? What works? And what’s it like when it seems all the remedies are failing?
by Molly Castle Work

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Hantavirus expert says risk to Minnesotans is low

Hantavirus expert says risk to Minnesotans is low

Headlines about the outbreak echo the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. But Minnesota Department of Health epidemiologist Leah Bauck tells MPR News it’s very different from COVID and hantavirus remains rare in Minnesota.
by Cathy Wurzer and Lukas Levin

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A new advocate steps in as Minnesota's mental health needs rise

A new advocate steps in as Minnesota's mental health needs rise

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with the new leader of the Minnesota chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness about his plan to get mental health support to more Minnesotans.
by Angela Davis and Cari Dwyer

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Hantavirus outbreak kills 3 on cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, WHO says

Hantavirus outbreak kills 3 on cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, WHO says

Hantaviruses are usually spread by exposure to urine, saliva or feces from infected rodents, such as rats or mice. Hantavirus infections are rare but can cause deadly respiratory infections.
by Rob Stein

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Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies

Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies

The Supreme Court has restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation. The justices’ order Monday allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor.
by The Associated Press

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Here’s how medication abortion works with just one drug that’s still fully available

Here’s how medication abortion works with just one drug that’s still fully available

A federal appeals court ruling restricts telemedicine access to the abortion drug mifepristone for the whole country, at least temporarily. But another drug that remains available is safe and effective at ending early pregnancy.
by Mara Gordon, Selena Simmons-Duffin and Diane Webber

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