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Aspen School District officials are trying to lessen classroom distractions caused by cellphones. Most students think new restrictions are unnecessary, while some value technology breaks. But it’s unclear how these kinds of policies affect students suffering from smartphone addiction.
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Rates are so bad in Native American communities that public health experts have asked the federal government to declare an emergency. Inadequate prenatal care may be partly to blame.
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The health screening truck was set up near the Navajo Transitional Energy Company coal mine. Active and retired coal miners were screened for black lung, a disease from inhaling coal silica particles.
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The federal government has launched a new behavioral health call line for students and staff at tribal schools across the U.S., including dozens in the Mountain West.
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Roaring Fork School District hosted a series of community forums in January to discuss potential substance use prevention strategies with families. Some ideas drew skepticism from youth development and harm reduction experts.
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Last year, teen harm reduction activists in Durango successfully lobbied the 9R School District to allow students permission to carry and administer Narcan. Now they've helped draft a bill to help change school drug policies across the state.
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We study history to learn from the past. But what if the pages in a history book melt away? A library just west of Denver is trying to preserve clues of antiquity before they become “cold cases” that could never be solved.
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The American Lung Association released its State of Tobacco Control report, which grades how states have been doing in limiting access to tobacco and adopting programs that help people stop smoking. Almost all Mountain West states got an "F" for not spending enough to stop tobacco use.
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A new analysis shows a growing number of children are losing federal health insurance across the U.S., including in the Mountain West.
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Data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment shows that respiratory illnesses across the state are declining in January after a surge of COVID-19, flu, and RSV infections over the holidays.
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Last month, the Bureau of Land Management released a five-year Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Action Plan. The basic idea is to get more members of the public involved in scientific research that helps the agency better manage the many millions of acres under its control.
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It’s one of many battles fought nationwide for the survival of rural birth centers, which tend to be less profitable for hospitals operating in small communities. At stake is the health and safety of women who could lose access to necessary healthcare entirely.