Healthcare

Photo of UC Davis student working to ensure placement of tampons and pads in UC Davis restrooms

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

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 find something meant missing the class. ...

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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...

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 health nonprofits, the Trust for America’s Health and ...

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 pur...

Big Data Shows Measles Vaccine Doesn’t Cause Autism

New York Times

March 6, 2019

By Jan Hoffman At a time when measles outbreaks are mounting among clusters of unvaccinated children, notably in Washington state, New York and Texas, a new large study published this week found no assoc...

My Turn: Here’s How to Avert California’s Next Health Care Crisis

CALmatters

February 16, 2019

California has never been shy about taking bold steps to tackle the most pressing issues affecting our nearly 40 million residents—from efforts protecting and expanding health care coverage to paving the way for more affordable health services. Opinion ...

What Would Happen if Hospitals Openly Shared Their Prices?

The Conversation

February 13, 2019

Imagine there was a store where there were no prices on items, and you never knew what you’d pay until you’d picked out your purchases and were leaving the shop. You might be skeptical that the store would have...

Who Chooses Abortion? More Women Than You Might Think.

The Conversation

February 9, 2019

The abortion debate is at the center of U.S. political dialogue. As of June 2018, 49 percent of Americans consider themselves pro-choice, while 45 percent consider themselves pro-life. Voices from both sides fl...

Sen. Hurtado’s First Bill Aims to Help Asthma Sufferers

Myles Barker

February 6, 2019

Low-income Central Valley residents suffering from asthma may gain access to resources to help manage the chronic lung disease. Newly elected state Sen. Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) has introduced her first piece of legislation in Senate Bill 207, which aims ...

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