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Eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder, are some of the most fatal mental illnesses. Yet treatment options are sparse, particularly in rural states such as Montana.
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A year after a new Montana law stripped local health boards of their rulemaking authority, confusion and power struggles are creating a patchwork oversight system that may change how public health is administered long after the pandemic is over.
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More than 20 cases of the BA.2 strain of COVID-19 have been reported in Montana since the end of January.
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Montana’s governor pushed the state’s health workers to seek religious exemptions to a federal mandate to be vaccinated against covid, but the number who have done so is unknown.
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Medical and nursing groups sued last year saying the law jeopardizes their work.
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The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council along with the reservation’s incident commander announced this week that masking on the reservation will be optional and that tribal offices will reopen to the public.
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The director of Montana’s health department says the agency doesn’t have the resources to continue a pandemic-related food assistance program for kids.
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Gallatin and Yellowstone counties are among those moving to automated case investigations.
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Studies on white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania and Ontario offer evidence that the mammals are a reservoir for the coronavirus. What are the implications for the course of SARS-CoV-2?
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Not a single project has begun despite the omicron surge that led to a new outbreak of COVID cases among Montana State Prison inmates in January. That delay has left weak points within Montana’s secure facilities.