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A health system reliant on Western medicine practices does not appear to be meeting the needs of American Indian youth in the Gallup-McKinley County School District in New Mexico and actually could be harming them, according to a report from the Project Trust Partnership, the Gallup Independent reports. read more

Mental health of a pregnant mother can have an effect during childbirth. Women with a history of mental illness are at higher risk of having children that are stillborn or die within the first month of life. Researchers at the Centre for Women's Mental Health at The University of Manchester studied almost 1.5 million births in Denmark between 1973 and 1998, including 7,021 stillbirths. The risk of stillbirth and newborn deaths from any cause was at least twice as high for mothers admitted with a serious psychiatric illness than for women with no such history. read more