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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The option for terminally ill patients to end their lives with prescribed medication is moving forward to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, but not without strong opposition.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Police officers in New Hampshire used deadly force nine times last year, with all but one resulting in loss of life. Police shot two more men this year, leaving one dead.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A navy blue van has been making its way across New Hampshire for the past two years, stocked with naloxone, syringes, fentanyl test strips, condoms and other supplies meeting people where they are and helping to prevent overdoses and infections.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Armed security guards will become a new presence at New Hampshire Hospital, the state’s psychiatric facility in Concord following a fatal shooting in November 2023, when a security guard stationed in the hospital lobby was killed by a former patient at the hospital.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A person experiencing a mental health crisis was involved in a stabbing outside a state facility in Concord on Monday morning, according to state police.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A Northwood police officer was justified in the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Malcolm Burns last year, an investigation by the New Hampshire Attorney General's office found. 

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Psychiatrist John Hinck was on duty at New Hampshire Hospital on November 17, 2023, when gunfire shattered the routine of the state’s largest psychiatric facility. He recalled sheltering in place with the staff and patients, only to find later security officer Bradley Haas killed in the lobby.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Amoskeag Health in New Hampshire informed patients on Tuesday night that it would no longer be offering gender-affirming care, but within 48 hours, those same patients began receiving emails notifying them that the services had resumed.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

At age 75, Rep Bob Lynn says he loves life. But he knows he’s no “spring chicken” and his days are finite.

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A man from Salem said he’s never felt whole since he was circumcised as a baby and has spent his adult life trying to reverse the procedure.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

When Carrie Becker received abnormal results back from her yearly mammogram, she underwent a series of tests. Three biopsies, three ultrasounds, three mammograms and one MRI later, she learned what the tests had confirmed: she had breast cancer.While...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. When I started this essay, the hitman who assassinated Brian Thompson was still running free, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare,...

By CELESTE CLARK

Celeste Clark is the executive director, Raymond Coalition For Youth. Many people are talking about the president pardoning his son. In the field of substance misuse prevention, we call this an opportunity to raise awareness that substance misuse...

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Earlier this year, New Hampshire lawmakers banned transgender girls from competing on girls’ school sports teams and prohibited some gender reassignment surgeries for minors.Those efforts will continue next year as several Republicans have filed draft...

By WILLIAM MURPHY

William Murphy is director, Advocacy & Public Policy, Epilepsy Foundation New England. As New Hampshire families plan for the holidays, many are making careful calculations – not about gifts or celebrations but how to afford their prescription...

By JOSH PARKER

Josh Parker is an operations project coordinator in Milford. It’s no secret that healthcare costs have skyrocketed in recent years. According to some estimates, Americans now owe at least $220 billion in medical debt. And yet, rates of chronic disease...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Chris Sununu has one ask before he leaves the corner office: to see Dartmouth Health take over operations at Hampstead Hospital.He knows it’s a unique proposition – the private hospital would lease the facility from the state, gaining full control...

By RACHEL WACHMAN

Charles “Chuck” Lloyd’s closet grows pinker by the year. He now owns pink socks, ties, shirts, and even a pink suit.The Bow resident and vice chancellor for the state’s community college system has participated in the American Cancer’s Men Wear Pink...

By NED WOODY

Ned Woody lives in Bow. Ahmed Kutty’s recent My Turn was a timely one. With Medicare open enrollment under way, seniors face what is often a confusing choice about their Medicare options. While I generally share Mr. Kutty’s opinion that...

By AHMED KUTTY

Ahmed Kutty, MD lives in Peterborough. A week ago, HS my 89-year-old neighbor asked for help to make sense of the calls and ads that were creating confusion and consternation to choose among various Medicare Advantage plans being pitched to her. My...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Legislation allowing terminally ill individuals to legally end their lives through medication is back on the table for next year’s legislative session but with one change – patients would be prohibited from taking the prescribed medication in public...