Young People May Respond Better to Upbeat Health Messages

Young people may respond better to upbeat health messages

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Critical care doctors at a major teaching hospital believe they provided futile treatment to about one in five intensive care unit patients, needlessly prolonging their lives. … They were then shown the actual statistics for such events. … "The …
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The Heroin Epidemic: Stories of addiction (video)

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County's rising heroin overdose numbers are startling, but those affected by the deadly drug are not statistics. … After learning months earlier of their son's addiction, the Olmsted Falls family helped Robby get treatment.
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Nicollet County assessment identifies priority health needs

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CEO Colleen Spike said more and more emergency patients are in mental crisis — they require psychiatric intervention because they either attempted suicide, suffer from substance abuse, are depressed, suffer psychosis or have experienced rapid …
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