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Weekly Covid Roundup: Nursing shortage causing strain as cases continue to drop

Number of new cases fell 42 percent from a week ago

Weekly Covid Roundup: Numbers continue to drop in New Hampshire

Hospitalizations see big drop, new cases fall 42 percent from a week earlier

NH Covid roundup: Cases, hospitalizations down for second straight week

Average daily new cases in fall 36 percent from a week earlier

Invisible Walls: The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company legacy

How Manchester’s zoning policy descended from a corporate policy of ethnic segregation

Covid roundup: Cases decrease, hospitalizations hold steady

But ‘we don't believe we're seeing a drop-off in the circulation of Covid’

New Hampshire Covid-19 numbers again hit all-time highs

Cases surge across the state as Omicron takes hold

Covid report: Cases increase in NH, hospitalizations remain steady over week

Infections rise by 41 percent during period as positivity rate rises too

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Report: NH’s caregivers need support

A new report from the AARP concludes there’s an urgent need to support the tens of thousands of New Hampshire residents who serve as caregivers to people close to them.

Pharmacy benefit manager reform is the bipartisan solution patients desperately need

The bipartisan Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Price Transparency and Accountability would break the link between PBM compensation and drug price, and lower prescription costs, advocates say.

(Opinion) Protecting children’s mental health through collaborative care

In 2016, the New Hampshire Legislature enacted a system of care model for children’s behavioral health services, recognizing a critical gap: Children exposed to adverse childhood experiences and those with severe emotional disturbances were falling through the cracks of fragmented services.

New England Rural Health Association awarded $1.6m HRSA Northern Border RCORP grant

The award totals $1.6 million over four years and will support training, placement and sustainability efforts to strengthen the behavioral health workforce across rural Vermont and New Hampshire

Parkland to open standalone ER in Salem

A free-standing 24-hour emergency room operated by Parkland Medical Center was conditionally approved by planners Nov. 13

This bot makes bones

A process to create human tissue and bone through 3D printing won top honors at the NH Tech Alliance’s Product of the Year competition. The BioAssembly Bot 500, a robotic-based tissue fabrication and manufacturing platform, was developed by Advanced Solutions Life Sciences, a Louisville, Kentucky-based company whose research and development team is based in the Manchester Millyard.