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The number of Iowa parents seeking religious exemptions to vaccination requirements continues to climb, despite efforts to dispel worries the shots cause health problems. (Leys, 5/10)

The final plan also calls for cutting grants for mental health and substance abuse treatment, but by less than Malloy sought. Still, these programs have been a frequent target of emergency cuts made by the governor over the past 18 months to close mid-year budget deficits. (Phaneuf and Levin Becker, 5/10)

A bill on its way to the governor's desk would require periodic audits of the nonprofit community boards that manage Medicaid and mill levy funds for Coloradans with disabilities. (5/10)

Years of weak leadership at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center have allowed UC Health and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine to muscle in on the management of the veterans' hospital, a career VA official says, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars and affecting health care for veterans in Greater Cincinnati. (Saker, 5/10)

West Virginia health officials are notifying more patients at a heart clinic in Beckley who may have been exposed to hepatitis after four additional cases of hepatitis C were detected by the state Bureau of Public Health. (5/10)

The family of a mentally ill man who died in a Virginia jail cell after losing so much weight his heart stopped filed a $60 million wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against several jail officials and health-care providers. (5/10)

Ohioans overwhelmingly favor legalizing medical marijuana but are still mixed on whether it should be OK to use recreationally, according to a poll released this morning. (Everhart, 5/11)

Courtney Scott, a fourth-grader at Hampstead Hill Academy, didn't know she needed glasses until a couple of weeks ago. Baltimore City health officials estimate that 10,000 of 62,000 students from pre-K through eighth grade need glasses, but most don't get them. (Cohn, 5/10)