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Plans for Opioid Settlement Funds
The Department of Health Services (DHS) plans to spend the first $6 million of a larger opioid settlement on distributing fentanyl test strips and the overdose-reversal drug naloxone. Other priorities…
ThedaCare in Waupaca Gets Federal Grant
The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) announced investments of nearly $60 million to grow the health workforce and increase access to quality health care in rural communities, including nearly…
Lyme Disease Cases Soar in Rural America
Diagnoses of the tick-borne illness soared by 357% in rural America between 2007 and 2021. Cases increased by 60 percent in rural areas from 2016 to 2021 alone, peaking nationally in…
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