4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (566+ words) The United States takes a distinctly different approach to supplement regulation, primarily governed by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994. Under this legislation, dietary supplements occupy a unique category – neither food nor drug – with regulations administered by…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (790+ words) In the range of 29,000 Virginia seniors are residents of one of our 291 certified nursing homes, so, about 100 per, would be the average head count there. The good news coming: the General Assembly, earlier this year, approved funding to hire eight…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (264+ words) The Augusta Health Foundation announced the recipients of the John B. Davis Scholarship and the Kent-Holbert Scholarships for 2026 this week. This year’s recipient of the $1,200 John B. Davis Scholarship is Samuel Starcher, a graduate of Buffalo Gap High School. Starcher served…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (193+ words) Here we go again, with the Virginia Department of Health needing to put out a release to tell people that vaccines are safe, this time the focus being, flu, COVID-19 and RSV. People who inject horse dewormer are in charge…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (409+ words) Keeping people from falling through those gaps is HEART’s job. Increasingly, the team is leveraging Peregrine Technologies to do it. Because HEART is part of the police department, its staff are authorized to see certain police records that help them…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (382+ words) The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources reported today that it has received reliable reports of sporadic deer mortalities consistent with hemorrhagic disease. Hemorrhagic disease often results in annual outbreaks in white-tailed deer in the Southeast, including Virginia – more common on…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (842+ words) Something is shifting in how patients and families find addiction treatment, and most facility operators haven’t noticed yet. For the past fifteen years, the patient acquisition playbook for treatment centers has been built around one assumption: patients and families Google…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1165+ words) The behavioral health industry is projected to reach $132 billion by 2032. Demand for addiction treatment has never been higher. Families are searching online at 2 AM for help. Insurance coverage for substance use treatment has expanded significantly since the Mental Health Parity…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1038+ words) I’ve been following Houston’s overdose numbers for the better part of three years now, and I’ll be honest — the trajectory still catches me off guard every time I pull the latest data. Harris County leads Texas in fentanyl deaths. Not…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (796+ words) With hundreds of treatment facilities inside the Houston metro, it might seem logical that most people seeking help would stay local. But a growing number of Houston-area families are choosing a different path — traveling 30 minutes to an hour outside the…...