Statewide Region Local News: Health


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

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07/10/2023
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
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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
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Hot temperatures kill employees every year and climate change is making work more deadly.

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06/26/2023
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A 2017 policy has led to a 234 percent increase in the transgender prison population.

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06/23/2023
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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.

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06/16/2023
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Abortion rights advocates say the centers mislead vulnerable women about their pregnancy options.

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06/09/2023
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With pandemic benefits ending, food banks have become supermarkets for thousands of Californians.

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05/25/2023
The state Air Resources Board voted today to ban the substance known as chromium 6, giving platers several years to switch to an alternative the platers say won’t produce the same chrome shine.

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05/23/2023
After unanimously clearing the Senate, a bill expanding first responders' access to workers’ comp for PTSD moves to the Assembly.

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05/22/2023
Officials are proposing to increase reimbursement rates for some Medi-Cal providers, who say low pay rates prevent them from taking more patients.

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05/19/2023
California legislative committees in the Assembly and Senate blocked two big climate bills. One would have made the state’s greenhouse gas emission reduction targets more ambitious. Another would have allowed people to sue oil companies over health problems if they meet certain criteria.

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05/16/2023
To fight the skyrocketing cost of insulin, California is using multiple tactics, including making its own generic versions.

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05/02/2023
In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed and the Legislature approved a tax penalty on Californians without health insurance. That money was supposed to be used to lower costs for those insured through Covered California, but that has only happened once.

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04/16/2023
Politicians must contend with a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, but they also face demands from leaders of vital health care and transit services for more money to solve their fiscal woes.

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03/19/2023
Retired California government workers will get tens of thousands of dollars if they give up their long-term care insurance.