Statewide Region Local News: Health


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

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

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07/21/2023
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
Image for display with article titled Tobacco Tax Revenue Down as Californians Quit. That Means Less Money For Child Services

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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07/11/2023
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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.

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07/10/2023
California’s more than 170,000 unhoused people often lack the means and mobility to locate and visit a doctor who will accept them. At least 25 street medicine teams throughout the state are trying to fill that gap by providing health care to unhoused individuals in need.

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07/07/2023
Image for display with article titled Want Workers Comp if Family Member Gets COVID on Job and Gives it to You? Forget it, CA Supremes Say

State Supreme Court says "burden on employers" outweighs damage from viral illness.

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07/05/2023
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The California legislature once again prepares to consider single-payer health care.

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07/05/2023
Medi-Cal is changing how it pays mental health providers. Many of those providers say they may no longer be able to afford peer support specialists, home visits and other services.

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06/29/2023
California health officials say granting the licenses prevents the eviction of hundreds of residents from their homes and provides oversight provisions, including a two-year monitoring period.

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06/27/2023
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Here's who gets help and what takes a hit in the new $310 billion proposed state budget.

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06/26/2023
Image for display with article titled The Heat is On! What California is Doing to Protect Workers From Rising Temperatures

Hot temperatures kill employees every year and climate change is making work more deadly.

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06/26/2023
Image for display with article titled More California Prisoners Request Gender-Affirming Health Care, Including Surgeries

A 2017 policy has led to a 234 percent increase in the transgender prison population.

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06/23/2023
Image for display with article titled Child Marriages are Legal in California: Survivors Press State to Outlaw the Practice

Earlier effort to ban underage marriage was thwarted by civil liberties advocates

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06/20/2023
The spending change would prioritize housing for homeless people, which children's mental health advocates fear will cut their funding.