KDADS seeks input on what to do with Rainbow Mental Health Facility

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The agency announced the RFI in a joint press release that included comments from a state senator and the executive director of the association that represents the state's community mental health centers. Sen. Jim Denning, an Overland Park Republican …
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St. Mary's changes pain medicine policy

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HUNTINGTON — A shift in policy at an area emergency room is being touted as another tool to combat prescription drug abuse in the Tri-State. The new pain management policy, which took effect July 1 at St. Mary's Medical Center, is a combined effort to …
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Granting the freedom to rape or kill again

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Even international recidivism rates with treatment were 13.5 per cent – 27.2 per cent without – but there was one crucial omission in the data and it is the same problem evident in study after study, Taylor says. "These studies are based on convictions …
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FDA issues fecal transplant guidance

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a guidance note about fecal transplants. … The success rate was studied recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, where the process was concluded to be successful in curing 15 out of 16 …
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