Sacramento County Local News: Health


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07/27/2023
Melissa Moya began her Lyme disease journey seven years ago. Now, as the founder of the Lyme Fight Foundation, she aims to educate, raise awareness, and provide information and resources.

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07/26/2023
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Coverage through state health insurance exchange will rise almost 10 percent.

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07/26/2023
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As heat waves sweep across California, it’s workers who pay the heaviest price.

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07/26/2023
The iconic California burger joint known for its crossed palm trees and cups printed with Bible verses banned its employees in five states from wearing masks at work.

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07/25/2023
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The legislation would overhaul the process to appeal denials of coverage by private health insurance companies.

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07/25/2023
California is poised to become the first state in the country to protect workers who make kitchen and bathroom countertops out of a popular kind of artificial stone known as “quartz.”

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07/25/2023
As bargaining on a new contract continues, over 100 unionized health care workers picketed outside the Kaiser Permanente hospital in the Arden-Arcade area. The action helped kick off a statewide picketing campaign this week.

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07/24/2023
Thousands of Californians died from opioid overdoses in 2021. In response, many communities are making it easier to obtain life-saving overdose reversal drugs while some families are calling for tougher criminal penalties for fentanyl dealers.

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07/24/2023
More than 600,000 Californians will be able to go for surgery at a hospital without paying a deductible under new health plans that Covered California will offer in this fall’s open enrollment. The agency also is lowering the cost of generic drugs and reducing co-pays on primary care, emergency and specialist visits.

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07/23/2023
California’s experimental new program targets methamphetamine addiction by rewarding patients with gift cards for negative drug tests.

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07/23/2023
Sacramento County supervisors in 2020 passed a resolution acknowledging racism as a public health crisis. They committed to identifying and implementing solutions to eliminate systemic racial inequity in all county-provided community services.

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07/21/2023
Image for display with article titled More Than 220K Californians Lose Health Coverage as Medi-Cal Purges Enrollments

California's health insurance program for low-income residents conducted its first eligibility check since 2019.

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07/19/2023
Image for display with article titled ‘A Lifesaving Tool’: California’s New 988 Mental Health Line Sees Surge in Calls

Crisis centers have received almost 300,000 calls in one year of the 988 hotline.

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07/18/2023
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In 1998, voters approved Prop 10, funding child services programs through a tax on smoking.

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07/17/2023
Image for display with article titled Gavin Newsom’s Mental Health Plan May Shift $720 Million From Services to Housing

New report says governor has not offered justification for switching priorities.

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07/16/2023
Excessive drinking during the pandemic increased alcoholic liver disease deaths so much that the condition killed more Californians than car accidents or breast cancer, a California Healthline analysis has found.

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07/13/2023
Federal regulators approved the nation’s first over-the-counter birth control pill—a decision that will soon make contraceptive medication as easy to obtain as aspirin and eyedrops.

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07/11/2023
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Opponents of proposed laws say they put an unfair burden on small business.

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07/11/2023
Many California caregivers are aging immigrants making near-minimum wage. Two bills to improve pay and safety could benefit elderly Californians facing a caregiver shortage.

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07/10/2023
As California gives immigrants access to more public programs, its poverty rate declines, some say. But budget and recession worries slow that progress.