Santa Cruz County Local News: Health


All Local Health News articles contributed by our local media allies and other local newsrooms.

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12/02/2024
Birth centers are midwife-run facilities that deliver babies outside of hospitals. They have struggled to stay in business in part because of strict state licensing requirements.

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11/25/2024
Gov. Gavin Newsom is urgently preparing to protect reproductive rights from the incoming Trump administration—and the looming possibility of Project 2025-inspired policies.

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11/25/2024
Learn how health officials and California dairies are responding, or not, to the explosive spread of bird flu through dairy herds across the state.

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11/22/2024
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About 40 people gathered outside the CineLux Green Valley Cinema in Watsonville Friday to protest new regulations by the Department of Pesticide Regulation regarding 1,3-dichloropropene, also called Telone, a pesticide widely used in California.

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11/21/2024
Learn about the discussions underway at UCSC about the addition of a medical school on campus.

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11/19/2024
Bird flu has been spreading among dairy workers in California’s Central Valley, jumping from cows to people. A new suspected case in the Bay Area came from an unknown source.

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11/08/2024
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Valencia Elementary School was closed Friday after numerous students were sickened by what is likely norovirus. The school will reopen Tuesday.

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11/01/2024
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Watsonville Community Hospital and the Pajaro Valley Health Care District announced Friday that the building–and the property that surrounds it–once again belongs to the community.

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11/01/2024
The invasive Aedes aegypti mosquitos have been detected in more areas of Santa Clara County, prompting officials to hold meetings to discuss their response to the threat posed by the species. 

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10/29/2024
A strain of bird flu that imperiled California poultry and cattle has jumped to people. In humans, the symptoms are mild and the virus has not been transmitted among people.

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10/25/2024
A summary of the latest campaign finance filings for the Measure Z "soda tax" on the Santa Cruz County November ballot.

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10/22/2024
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Santa Cruz Community Health Partners with Central Coast Overdose Prevention to Provide 24/7 Access to Naloxone (Narcan) in the San Lorenzo Valley

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10/18/2024
Image for display with article titled Fact Check: No on Z, the Campaign Against a Santa Cruz Soda Tax

Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo Inc., Keurig Dr. Pepper Inc. and Red Bull have collectively contributed $1,235,000 to the No on Z campaign — trying to sway more than half of Santa Cruz’s roughly 37,000 voters against a proposed soda tax in the Nov. 5 election.
That spend represents about $67 for each “no” vote needed to defeat Measure Z, according to campaign finance records.

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10/18/2024
At an October 17 meeting at the Silver Spur on Soquel Drive, local residents heard about plans to develop the property into a senior assisted-living and memory care facility.

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10/16/2024
Image for display with article titled Back From the Brink: Watsonville Community Hospital Two Years After Its Return to Public Ownership • Talk of the Bay

It has been just over two years since the Pajaro Valley Health Care District acquired Watsonville Community Hospital and returned it to public ownership for the first time in decades.

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10/16/2024
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The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved an ordinance that will, in a little more than two years, ban the sale of filtered cigarettes in unincorporated areas of the county.

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10/08/2024
In their October 8 meeting, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors advanced a proposal to ban the sale of filtered cigarettes in the unincorporated parts of the county.

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10/04/2024
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The Santa Cruz County Supervisors on Oct. 8 are expected to consider a ban on the sale of filtered cigars and cigarettes in the unincorporated county. Unincorporated areas include Live Oak, Soquel, the San Lorenzo Valley and other places outside the cities of Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, Capitola and Watsonville.

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10/04/2024
The Mercury News explains the Proposition 35 to renew the existing tax used to fund Medi-Cal health services.

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10/02/2024
The Waves of Wellness: Santa Cruz Festival will be held on October 19 in downtown Santa Cruz on Pacific Avenue, Cooper Street and Abbott square.