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The Federal Bureau of Prisons updated its policy to better provide care for inmates with mental health disorders, but in practice didn't dole out any extra money to help those on the front lines of the crisis. Mental health workers were then left with a bigger caseload but the same amount of resources. In other public health news: climate change, cancer, dementia, HIV, male birth control and more.