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AZ Week: State Needs Improved Child Safety System

From law enforcement to Child Protective Services worker caseloads, upgrades sought

Web Feature: Where Wishes Are Horses

Equine therapy helps youth on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation reconnect with their culture—and themselves

AZ Week: Brewer Wants to Spend Some, Save More

Mental health, state computers, Child Protective Services may see upgrades

Web Feature: Finding a Native Way to Heal

Two counselors turn to Native American practices to help people battling addiction

UA Muscular Dystrophy Study Expanding

Steele Children’s Research Center receives $1.35 million grant

Surviving Cancer: One Year Later

Cancer survivor Pat Mersiowsky reflects on life a year after completing her cancer treatment

Patients Seek Hope Through Trials

Clinical trials offer cancer patients a chance at treatment and a role in research

Losing AHCCCS: Southern Arizona Copes With Medicaid Cuts

An Arizona Public Media special report on cuts' impact to patients and health care providers

Researchers Probe Dramatic Drop In Vaccinations

Arizona parents choosing not to vaccinate their children has doubled in a single decade

Officials Investigating Cross-Border Outbreak

An outbreak of Guillain-Barre Syndrome sickens 22 people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border

Marijuana’s Effects on the Brain

Part 5 of AZPM's Controversy over Cannabis series seeks expert opinions on marijuana's long-term effects on those who smoke it.

Who Oversees a Secret Garden?

Part 3 of AZPM's Controversy over Cannabis series visits a grow house to ask the question: How do you regulate home-grown medical marijuana?

Arizona Budget 2012: How It Affects You

The state budget goes into effect July 1 with plenty of local impacts.

One Woman's Cancer Journey

Kelli Guinn is battling her breast cancer with the help of a unique, holistic treatment program

Drug Violence Strains Blood Supply at Mexican Hospitals

Learn how one blood center in the northern city of Chihuahua is trying to reform Mexico's dysfunctional blood donation system.

Banking Blood for Babies At Risk

Research efforts turn to the stem cells contained in cord blood to help newborns at risk of neurological disorders

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