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Prisons resort to video for psychiatric care
As more and more people in prison need mental health care, more and more prison systems are turning to telepsychiatry. It’s basically a video psychiatry appointment, a doctor’s visit via Skype or FaceTime. | In St. Cloud, a new approach to dealing with mental health crises -- in jail and out | Clay County: An old jail is now a leader in inmate mental health
Equifax to pay up to $700M in data breach settlement
The proposed settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, if approved by the federal district court Northern District of Georgia, will provide up to $425 million in monetary relief to consumers, a $100 million civil money penalty, and other relief.
Audit: Hospitals put Native Americans at risk with opioids
Government hospitals failed to follow their own protocols for prescribing and dispensing the drugs, according to the audit.
Will Robert Mueller's testimony shift the prevailing winds in Washington?
All eyes in the capital — and many more in the nation — will be on the former special counsel this week in Congress. Whatever takes place, the political stakes are high.
Photos: Documenting 1967's 'Fiery Unrest' in Minneapolis
Years of simmering tensions over racial discrimination and a lack of economic opportunity boiled over July 19-21, part of a wave of urban unrest cresting across the country that became known as the Long Hot Summer. 
Feeling blue? Oregon students now can take 'mental health days'
Oregon will allow students to take "mental health days" just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health under a new law that experts say is one of the first of its kind in the U.S.
How 'microexpressions' can make moods contagious
Feelings seem to spread contagiously between friends, partners, or groups. Why are we so easily influenced by one another's emotions?
Study: Sugar ruins teeth, rules the world
The authors of a new study say dental health is especially bad in low- and middle-income countries — and that Big Sugar works to make sure soda and candy aren't targeted as cavity culprits.
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