Health
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How Midwest Street Medicine is bridging health equity gaps for the homeless
"This is where we can make a real difference in health equity and life expectancy."
Medicaid work requirements in South Dakota? Only if Trump wins.
South Dakota voters will decide on Amendment F, a legislative effort to allow employment criteria to be used for able-bodied adults to receive Medicaid benefits.
Anti-abortion group: Amendment G can make ballot and still be discounted
Group says secretary of state can make public statement that "no votes for or against the measure will be counted or have any impact."
Alcohol's impact: 35, dry and dying while waiting for a transplant
Chronic liver disease is now the leading cause of death of South Dakotans in their 30s. “Alcohol is particularly challenging because it's prevalent. It's relatively cheap, and it's not in any way illegal."
SD Supreme Court sends abortion lawsuit back to lower court
Anti-abortion group Life Defense Fund will have another chance to plead its case in front of Circuit Court Judge John Pekas in Minnehaha County.
South Dakota's mosquito war
CDC says 61 out of 66 South Dakota counties have a high incidence of West Nile virus cases in humans, with Brown, Pennington and Minnehaha counties having the highest. But a single case can swing the stats.
Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to keep South Dakota abortion measure from ballot
The judge questioned why the South Dakota Secretary of State wasn’t named in the lawsuit, calling the complaint against Dakotans for Health "a collateral attack.”