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2011年1月11日 · Pregnant And Live Near LA Wildfires? Take Extra Precautions Or Consider Leaving, Experts Say: After five days of an unrelenting firestorm in Los Angeles County, medical experts are warning that the area’s smoke levels pose unique risks to those who are pregnant and their fetuses. First Presumed Case Of Human Bird Flu Found In San Francisco: The first case of bird flu in a person has been ...
Monday, January 13, 2025 - California Healthline
4 天之前 · Pregnant And Live Near LA Wildfires? Take Extra Precautions Or Consider Leaving, Experts Say: After five days of an unrelenting firestorm in Los Angeles County, medical experts are warning that the area’s smoke levels pose unique risks to those who are pregnant and their fetuses. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.Plus, NPR …
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - California Healthline
3 天之前 · Is Pink Fire Suppressant Harmful To Your Health?: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of pink fire suppressant have been dropped on Los Angeles hillsides and homes ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to stop the fires from spreading.
Midwives Blame California Rules for Hampering Birth Centers …
3 天之前 · Last month, state Assembly member Mia Bonta introduced legislation to streamline the regulatory process and fix what she calls “a broken system” for licensing birth centers. “We know that alternative birth centers lead to often better outcomes, lower-risk births, more opportunity for children to be born healthy, and also to lower maternal mortality and morbidity,” she said.
Doctors, Nurses Press Ahead as Wildfires Strain Los Angeles' …
2025年1月10日 · In Pacific Palisades, St. John’s Physician Partners, a primary care and pediatric clinic affiliated with Providence Health & Services, burned down, said Patricia Aidem, a spokesperson for the large Catholic hospital chain based in Renton, Washington. Not far from the eastern edge of the Palisades Fire, Providence St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, one of the group’s major L.A ...
Health Care Is Newsom’s Biggest Unfinished Project. Trump …
2025年1月6日 · More than a million California residents living in the U.S. without authorization now qualify for Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid, making California among the first states to cover low-income people regardless of their immigration status. The state is experimenting with Medicaid money to pay for social services such as housing and food assistance, especially for those living on the ...
California Falling Short of Enrollment Goal as Mental Health Courts ...
2024年11月27日 · California’s goal was to help 2,000 seriously mentally ill people by the end of this year, but data shows fewer than 600 petitions have been filed. As the CARE program expands to every county, officials say it sometimes takes months to locate eligible adults and get them in treatment plans.
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Daily Edition for Thursday, January 2, 2025. January 2, 2025 Drug Overdose Deaths Plummet In 2024: After surging during the covid pandemic into a crushing public health emergency, San Francisco recorded 586 fatal overdoses in the first 11 months of 2024. That represents a nearly 23% decrease, or 174 fewer deaths, compared with the first 11 months of 2023.
California Governor Signs Law Banning Medical Debt From Credit …
California lawmakers noted that medical debt — unlike other kinds of debt — isn’t an accurate reflection of credit risk, and its inclusion can depress credit scores and make it hard for people to get a job, rent an apartment, or secure a car loan. But California lawmakers have left a glaring loophole. Patients who pay hospital bills using medical credit cards or medical specialty loans ...