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2 weeks ago | 
kuow.org | Katia Riddle
VA employees have to report to work in person on Monday. That worries mental health care providers at the agency who say limited space will affect their ability to provide confidentiality to patients.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctpublic.org | Katia Riddle
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2 weeks ago | 
kpbs.org | Katia Riddle
As a young child in New Orleans, Coty Raven Morris didn't make a distinction between learning music and learning anything else. "The things that I learned about history, about my culture, about other people's cultures, I learned in song and play," she says. "There were not specific music classes when I was in New Orleans," she says.
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4 weeks ago | 
wesa.fm | Katia Riddle
The US Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be backing off a plan to send telehealth therapists back to offices that may lack privacy, according to a memo obtained by NPR.
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1 month ago | 
mprnews.org | Katia Riddle
New research suggests that given the right kind of training, AI bots can deliver mental health therapy with as much efficacy as — or more than — human clinicians. The recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows results from the first randomized clinical trial for AI therapy. Researchers from Dartmouth College built the bot as a way of taking a new approach to a longstanding problem: The U.S. continues to grapple with an acute shortage of mental health providers.
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1 month ago | 
kuow.org | Katia Riddle |Joel Berg
Sugary drinks including soda are the leading source of added sugars in the American diet. Getty Images Most people who study nutrition agree, reducing the amount of soda Americans consume would be good for the nation's health. But the plan to block people using the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — SNAP — from buying soda is getting mixed reviews.
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1 month ago | 
nhpr.org | Katia Riddle
Under the Trump administration, federal agencies are calling employees into the office. At the VA, therapists and doctors say this change is more than inconvenient — it could compromise patient care.
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1 month ago | 
ctpublic.org | Katia Riddle
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1 month ago | 
wfdd.org | Andrew Sussman |Katia Riddle |Sarah Handel
0:00/8:13 There was an error loading the media player. In a major security breach, a prominent journalist says he was unintentionally included in a group text messaging app as the country's top national security officials discussed plans to bomb the Houthis in Yemen. The existence of message chain was revealed Monday in a story in The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the magazine. The group chat took place on Signal, an encrypted messaging app, and began on March 11.
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1 month ago | 
wfdd.org | Mallory Yu |Katia Riddle |Sarah Handel
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