Healthcare

Many Specialists Will Be on Hand at Free Health Clinic in Fresno

November 13, 2019

The Muslim Society of Central California will host a free medical and dental clinic on Sunday at Manchester Center in central Fresno, with more than 45 physicians and nurse practitioners volunteering their health care services and 150 other people volunteering...

How Bad Teeth and Lack of Dental Care Can Lead to Poverty, Discrimination

CalMatters

October 22, 2019

Gina Diaz-Nino considers herself an extrovert. But since her mouth began deteriorating after years of methamphetamine use and two fights, she receded into the shadows. Her teeth are yellow, crooked and brown...

Why Are There So Many Filipino Nurses in California?

Catherine Ceniza Choy

October 4, 2019

In California hospitals today, immigration has diversified not only the state’s patient population, but the demographics of its caregivers as well. It is now commonplace to be cared for at the bedside by a ...

Efforts to Minimize Opioid Painkillers After Surgery Appear to Be Working

The Conversation

September 8, 2019

The opioid epidemic has been wreaking misery and death across the nation for years. In 2017 alone, opioid overdoses killed more than 47,000 people – 10,000 more deaths than were caused by traffic accidents that year. By Michael Kim The Conversation...

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Valley Children’s Again Ranks Among the Nation’s Best

gvwire

June 18, 2019

Valley Children's Hospital received its most impressive scorecard ever in the U.S. News & World Report's Best Children's Hospital list released Tuesday. The hospital is nationally ranked for 2019-20 in f...

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Beyond the Tampon Tax: How Far Will California Go to End ‘Menstrual Inequity’?

CalMatters

April 4, 2019

Annie Wang remembers the panic she felt being a freshman in a 500-person chemistry class at UC Davis when her period arrived and she didn’t have a tampon or pad. There was nowhere nearby to go, and leaving to f...

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Should the Able-Bodied Be Required to Work to Get Medicaid?

InsideSources.com

March 29, 2019

Progressive activists opposed to Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied adults are trying to use the courts to stop the new policy in states like Kentucky, Arkansas, and New Hampshire. One of the plaintiffs is a New Hampshire man who says he can’t meet wor...

Pan’s Bill Would Further Restrict Vaccine Exemptions for Schoolkids

David Taub

March 26, 2019

Wanting to crack down on what he calls fraudulent doctors, a California legislator introduced a bill that would take the power to approve medical exemptions away from doctors and grant it to other health profes...

Deaths From Drugs and Suicide Set U.S. Record

New York Times

March 12, 2019

By Adeel Hassan The number of deaths from alcohol, drugs, and suicide in 2017 hit the highest level since the collection of federal mortality data started in 1999, according to an analysis by two public heal...

California Raised Taxes to Pay Doctors for the Poor. It’s Still Waiting for Them.

CalMatters

March 8, 2019

It’s been two years since Californians voted to raise tobacco taxes so the state could pay doctors and dentists more when they treat low-income patients. But it’s unclear if the money is achieving a related purpose: getting more medical providers to accept the...

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