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Children's Wisconsin in Milwaukee has created a plan to address mental and behavioral health needs among the state's children, which would require an estimated $150 million in funding.

The American Heart Association plans to launch a $20 million research initiative focused on studying the effects of youth vaping.

Nearly a third (30 percent) of parents said they did not have time to worry about their children's health unless it was an emergency, according to a Nemours Children's Health System survey. 

Though cigarette smoking among U.S. adults reached an all-time low of 13.7 percent in 2018, nearly 20 percent of adults (49.1 million) used tobacco products, according to the CDC's Nov. 15 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 

People who are illiterate have a nearly three times higher risk of experiencing dementia as people who can read and write, according to a study published in Neurology.

Aetna Better Health of West Virginia, a subsidiary of CVS Health-owned Aetna, is taking over management of West Virginia's foster care system, according to MetroNews.

Cholesterol levels are decreasing in the U.S., a trend researchers are attributing to a 2013 change in treatment guidelines, according to a Nov. 11 study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 

Atrium Health and Novant Health joined Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina's value-based network, meaning seven of the state's largest systems will be in value-based arrangements with the insurer in 2020.

About 7 in 10 adults in the U.S. name healthcare and mass shootings as significant sources of stress, according to the American Psychological Association's 13th annual "Stress in America" survey.  

The gap between preventable deaths rates in rural and urban areas widened for many health conditions between 2010 and 2017, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report published Nov. 8.