Health
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Brain development science bolsters calls for quality preschool in South Dakota
New technologies give researchers detail on when parts of the brain develop: "The first year of life and then the first five years are really what we would refer to as very critical time periods for brain development."
'Kids look to adults:' Responding to child trauma 50 years after Gitchie Manitou murders
When four teenagers were murdered at Gitchie Manitou in 1973, Sioux Falls high school students weren't given much support to deal with the trauma.
Vaccinations slump as SD Health Department reorganizes community health system
"We need to keep babies on a vaccination schedule, and this makes that really difficult."
As South Dakota veteran population declines, honor guards carry on
South Dakota's veteran population has declined 20% since 2010, and finding veterans to participate in honor guard ceremonies is getting more difficult. “I feel like we need to continue to have these remembrances.”
'Hope Squads' empower students to tackle suicide prevention
“It’s OK to not be able to fix everything. Sometimes you need to get other people to help.”
Illnesses related to firefighting foam latest burden for South Dakota veterans
Military veterans who served at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City and at Joe Foss Field Air National Guard Station in Sioux Falls are part of new national class-action lawsuits seeking damages due to exposure to toxic chemicals in firefighting foam.
South Dakota moms bond over a shared experience: C-sections
One in four births in South Dakota is performed via cesarean section, and those births can range from the routine to the traumatic. In the first in a collaboration with SDPB's South Dakota Focus show, we look into how monthly meetings have a healing effect on moms who went through the procedure.