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Besides Montana, legislators in Alaska, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming passed measures this year to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage from 60 days to a year.

As the city responds to public concerns over urban camping and searches for humanitarian solutions to homelessness, it's also considering what most see as the best long-term solution – more shelter space.

Missoula City Council member and mayoral candidate Mike Nugent on Wednesday released a multi-pronged approach that he believes will provide both short- and long-term solutions to the city's homeless challenge.

Gov. Greg Gianforte vetoed a bill to help more people access assisted living, pointing to significant fiscal impacts and a “cumbersome process.”

Judge Mike Menahan granted Planned Parenthood of Montana’s temporary restraining order on the enforcement of House Bill 721 until further ruled by the court.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed four more bills this week targeting abortion access, including one that is already being challenged in court.

The state Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision that a law banning advanced-practice registered nurses from performing early-stage abortions was unconstitutional.

The companies want their AI to take notes for physicians and give them second opinions — assuming they can keep the intelligence from “hallucinating” or, for that matter, divulging patients’ private information.

Arizona is headed toward funding the first controlled clinical trials for whole mushroom psilocybin, or “magic mushrooms,” to treat an array of health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression.

Two transgender Montana teenagers and their families, along with two medical providers of gender-affirming care in the state, are challenging Montana’s newly signed law that bans the treatments for minors and opens practitioners up to professional punishment and lawsuits.