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Nursing home deaths in Virginia in January were more than seven times the national average. However, new data suggests that the COVID-19 deadly outbreak in the state may have reached its peak.
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A new CDC report released this week shows that a majority of teen girls in the U.S. feel persistently sad or hopeless, double that of boys.
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Drinking is a bad habit that a lot of us, me included, picked up to get through the pandemic.
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Three Ph.D. students at Virginia Tech and their advisor are analyzing Reddit to better understand and tackle different aspects of mental health issues to help prevent suicide.
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When Tyre Nichols woke up the morning of the last day of his life, I feel certain that he wasn’t thinking about racism or the chance that it might be his end.
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The Virginia Museum of History & Culture has announced its January programming and events.
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Staunton Public Library’s circulation total was 176,461 in 2022. The one library is just 21,000 short of Augusta County Library’s total for seven branches at 197,942.
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AFP’s Rebecca Barnabi focuses on stories about employment trends, business, education, arts, the environment, politics, healthcare, animals and culture.
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U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) has questions for the administration of Gov. Glenn Youngkin in how Virginia is using the Ashanti Alert.
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Medicine shelves at the grocery store are looking bare these days, in part to a spike in influenza-like illnesses including the cold, flu and RSV.
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