Alyssa Jeong Perry
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Fear and confusion over a piece of immigration policy has some residents thinking they need to drop their health coverage. -
Fear and confusion over an update to an immigration policy has some residents thinking they need to drop their health coverage
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Wildfire victims can face psychological harm -- like PTSD and depression -- even if they didn't lose their home.
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Fighting fires has been compared to the kind of stress that soldiers go through in warfare. A report found firefighters experience PTSD at rates similar to combat veterans.
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To help fire crews deal with the stress of fighting ever-more frequent and destructive wildfires, officials have set up a peer-support trailer in the middle of the Woolsey fire base camp.
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In one incident, a female psychiatric prisoner was neglected and pulled out her own eye. Then swallowed it.
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Children as young as 7 years old who face discrimination are at a higher risk for anxiety and depression, according to a new study by UC Riverside and Clark University in Massachusetts.
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Having a child with autism or a developmental disability can be tough. But for some immigrant communities, like Koreans, there's stigma attached to disabilities. And that makes it harder to get help.
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A new law will help force those with the most severe mental health issues to get treatment -- even if they don't want it.
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A new study found that more California women are thinking about delivery options that would get them out of a sterile hospital room.
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