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| Oct 15, 2026 | Readily Secures $11 Million to Redefine Healthcare AI Compliance and Enterprise Oversight | Readily announces $11 million Series A funding. This AI-native platform revolutionizes healthcare compliance. It directly links complex regulatory changes to internal health plan policies and operational workflows. The platform automates po... |
| Oct 13, 2026 | Readily Secures $11M for AI-Native Compliance Platform for Healthcare | What You Should Know
Healthcare AI compliance and enterprise oversight platform Readily announced an $11M Series A funding round led by Define Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and the California Health Care Foundation Innovati... |
| Jun 8, 2026 | Attorney General Bonta Announces California DOJ’S Affordability Response Team | LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced the creation of the first-of-its-kind Affordability Response Team within the California Department of Justice (DOJ). The Affordability Response Team will draw on the knowle... |
| Oct 19, 2025 | Pear Suite: $7.6 Million Series A Raised For Expanding AI-Based Platform And Strengthening The Community Health Workforce | Pear Suite, a digital health company focused on empowering community health workers (CHWs), announced that it has raised $7.6 million in Series A funding to accelerate the development of its AI-driven platform and scale its national provide... |
| Oct 17, 2025 | Health Care Foundation for Ventura County Receives $2 Million Grant from Gold Coast Health Plan | This grant goes towards expanding mammography services at VCMC
VENTURA, CA, UNITED STATES, October 17, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Health Care Foundation for Ventura County (HCFVC) has been awarded a $2,034,969 Resilience, Innovation, Su... |
| Oct 16, 2025 | Pear Suite Secures $7.6M: AI Powers Community Health Revolution | Pear Suite clinched $7.6 million in Series A funding. This digital health innovator empowers community health workers. Its AI platform closes critical care gaps. Investment fuels rapid network growth. It targets new Medicaid and Medicare co... |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Pear Suite Raises $7.6M in Series A Funding | Pear Suite, a Los Angeles, CA-based digital health company empowering community health workers (CHWs), raised $7.6m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Rock Health Capital and Nexxus Holdings, with support from Mucker Capital, Enable ... |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Pear Suite: $7.6 Million Series A Raised For Expanding National Network Of Community Health Workers | Pear Suite, a digital health company focused on empowering community health workers (CHWs), announced it has raised $7.6 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-driven platform, scale its provider network, and extend its partnerships w... |
| Oct 3, 2025 | Health care’s employment growth clouded by immigration crackdown, Medicaid cuts | By Phillip Reese, KFF Health News
The health care sector is a bright spot in the economy this year, driving nearly half of the nation’s employment gains, but economists and experts say immigration crackdowns and looming Medicaid cuts pose a... |
| Oct 1, 2025 | States target ultraprocessed foods in bipartisan push | By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, KFF Health News
California Republican James Gallagher, the GOP’s former Assembly leader, has often accused the state’s progressive lawmakers of heavy-handed government intrusion, but this year he added his name to a... |
| Sep 29, 2025 | Health care cuts threaten homegrown solutions to rural doctor shortages | By Bernard J. Wolfson, KFF Health News
CHICO, Calif. — Olivia Owlett chose to do her primary care residency in this Northern California college town largely because it faces many of the same health care challenges she grew up with.
Owlett i... |
| Sep 26, 2025 | As the Trump administration and states push health data sharing, familiar challenges surface | By Sarah Kwon, KFF Health News
The Northeast Valley Health Corp. in Los Angeles County could be a poster child for the benefits of sharing health data electronically. Related Articles
At annual legislative conference, Black lawmakers confro... |
| Sep 13, 2025 | Penguin Ai: $29.7 Million Raised To Reduce Administrative Costs in Healthcare | Penguin Ai has completed a $29.7 million financing round aimed at tackling the massive administrative burden that weighs down the healthcare industry. Greycroft led the company’s Series A round with $25 million in new capital, and it also a... |
| Sep 11, 2025 | Penguin AI Secures $29.7M to Automate Healthcare Administrative Workflows | What You Should Know:
– Penguin Ai, a healthcare artificial intelligence company that solves administrative burdens, announced today that it has secured $29.7 million in venture funding, including a $25M Series A led by Greycroft.
– Other p... |
| Sep 11, 2025 | Penguin Ai Secures $29.7M in Venture Funding | Penguin Ai, a Palo Alto, CA-based healthcare artificial intelligence company that solves administrative burdens, raised $29.7M in venture funding.
The round was led by Greycroft. Other investors included UPMC Enterprises, SemperVirens, Snow... |
| Aug 26, 2025 | The national suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth went dead. States are scrambling to help | The use of the dedicated line for LGBTQ+ youth had steadily increased, according to data from the federal substance abuse agency, with nearly 1.6 million calls, texts, or online chats since its rollout in October 2022, out of approximately ... |
| Aug 23, 2025 | ‘A fear pandemic’: Immigration raids push patients into telehealth | Patients in need of care are increasingly scared to seek it after Trump rescinded a Biden-era policy that barred immigration officials from conducting operations in “sensitive” areas such as schools, hospitals, and churches. Clinics and hea... |
| Aug 20, 2025 | National suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth went dead. Colorado and other states are scrambling to help. | Nordeen and other advocates for at-risk kids who helped staff the dedicated line said it has never been more critical for what The Trevor Project estimates are 5.2 million LGBTQ+ people ages 13-24 across the U.S. About 39% of LGBTQ+ young p... |
| Aug 8, 2025 | This physician-scientist is taking on Trump on behalf of disadvantaged communities | Thakur said that after the abrupt funding cuts, she and the other researchers “felt pretty powerless and found that the class-action lawsuit was a way for us to join together and sort of take a stance.”
The suit was filed independently by t... |
| Jul 7, 2025 | As mosquito season peaks, officials brace for new normal of dengue cases | Most people who contract dengue don’t get sick. But in some people symptoms are severe: bleeding from the nose or mouth, intense stomach pain, vomiting, and swelling. Occasionally, dengue causes death.
California offers a case study in how ... |
| May 6, 2025 | The Fertility Frontier: Navigating the Complex Landscape of IVF Access in America | In the United States, the quest for family-building through in vitro fertilization (IVF) resembles a marathon through a dense forest. The path is fraught with obstacles, from political resistance to financial burdens. As the nation grapples... |
| May 2, 2025 | What ‘Fertilization President’ Trump can learn from state efforts to expand IVF access | Whether the administration’s efforts will change policy remains unknown, but state-level attempts to mandate fertility coverage reveal the gauntlet of budgetary and political hurdles that such initiatives face — obstacles that have led to m... |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Public health risks of urban wildfire smoke prompt push for more monitoring | While Air Quality Index values are a good starting place for knowing what’s in the air, they don’t provide a full picture of pollutants, especially during disasters, said Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at UCLA. In ... |
| Apr 8, 2025 | ‘If they cut too much, people will die’: Health coalition pushes GOP on Medicaid funding | Similar stories have already surfaced in GOP-held swing districts nationwide where activists have been applying political pressure to sway vulnerable House members from supporting $880 billion in cuts that health experts say would almost ce... |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Trump turns homelessness response away from housing, toward forced treatment | Staffing cuts already proposed would hit the part of the agency overseeing homelessness spending and Housing First initiatives particularly hard. Trump outlined his vision during his campaign, calling for new treatment facilities to be open... |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Amid plummeting diversity at medical schools, a warning of DEI crackdown’s ‘chilling effect’ | But the court’s decision and the subsequent state-level backlash — 29 states have since introduced bills to curb diversity initiatives, according to data published by the Chronicle of Higher Education — have tamped down these efforts and le... |
| Mar 14, 2025 | National Politics | She co-founded the office that became DOGE. Now, she sees ‘irresponsible transformation’ | Q: You’ve made a career of bringing Silicon Valley talent into the public sector to improve the delivery of government services. What have you learned from mixing tech with government?
A: It’s really easy to look from the outside of governm... |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Health | Thought inflation was bad? Health insurance premiums are rising even faster | Small-business groups warn that, for workers whose employers don’t provide coverage, the problem could get worse if Congress does not extend enhanced federal subsidies that make health insurance more affordable on individual markets such as... |
| Feb 17, 2025 | Abridge Raises $250M in Series D Funding | Abridge, San Francisco, CA-based provider of a generative AI platform for clinical conversations, raised $250M in Series D funding.
The round was co-led by Elad Gil and IVP, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, California Heal... |
| Feb 17, 2025 | Abridge: $250 Million (Series D) Raised To Advance GenAI Platform Clinical Conversations | Abridge, a leading generative AI (GenAI) platform for clinical conversations, announced it has raised a $250 million Series D investment, coinciding with the milestone of surpassing 100 deployments at some of the largest and most complex he... |
| Jan 31, 2025 | Climate change threatens the mental well-being of youths. Here’s how to help them cope | In April, Abby took a survey on climate change for kids ages 12-17 during a visit to the emergency room at Children’s Hospital of Orange County.
Rammy Assaf, a pediatric emergency physician at the hospital, adapted the survey from one devel... |
| Jan 13, 2025 | Health | ‘Waiting list to nowhere’: Homelessness surveys trap Black men on the streets | National homelessness experts and local leaders say such personal questions exacerbate racial disparities in the ranks of the nation’s unhoused, particularly as more people experiencing homelessness compete for scarce taxpayer-subsidized ho... |
| Dec 28, 2024 | The Safety Net: A Fragile Web for Families in Abortion-Banning States | In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, states like Tennessee have enacted strict abortion bans. These laws, touted as pro-life, raise a critical question: Are they truly protecting families? The reali... |
| Dec 27, 2024 | National Politics | Trump threat to immigrant health care tempered by economic hopes | “The fear alone has so many consequences to the health of our communities,” said Mar Velez, director of policy with the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California. “This is, as they say, not their first rodeo. They understand how the system ... |
| Sep 21, 2024 | Health Secretary Becerra touts extreme heat protections. Farmworkers want more | Secretary Xavier Becerra met with members of Líderes Campesinas, a statewide women’s farmworker advocacy organization, to hear about the risks California farmworkers face as weather conditions become more extreme. (Vanessa G. Sánchez/KFF He... |
| Sep 9, 2024 | Health | Breast cancer rises among Asian American and Pacific Islander women | The rate of new breast cancer cases among Asian American and Pacific Islander women under 50 grew by about 52% from 2000 through 2021. Rates for AAPI women 50 to 64 grew 33% and rates for AAPI women 65 and older grew by 43% during that peri... |
| Aug 22, 2024 | BeMe Health Raises $12.5M in Funding | BeMe Health, a Miami, FL-based digital behavioral health startup, raised $12.5M in funding.
The round was led by Flare Capital and Polaris Partners with participation from Fiore Ventures, BCBS of Kansas and the California Health Care Founda... |
| Aug 12, 2024 | Attorney General Bonta Continues Fight Against Medical Debt Reporting | Consumers’ financial future should not be ruined for seeking lifesaving care
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today sent a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in support of the Bureau’s Proposed Rule whi... |
| Aug 7, 2024 | Politics | Harris’ California health care battles signal fights ahead for hospitals if she wins | For decades, the health industry has undergone consolidation despite government efforts to maintain competition. When health systems expand, adding hospitals and doctor practices to their portfolios, they often gain a large enough share of ... |
| Jul 3, 2024 | Planned Parenthood to blitz GOP seats, but will abortion sway California's conservative voters? | Planned Parenthood is preparing a seven-figure campaign blitz to oust GOP incumbents from California congressional seats, part of a larger national effort by the reproductive rights group to prevent a Republican majority from passing aborti... |
| Jul 1, 2024 | National Politics | Battleground Wisconsin: Voters feel nickel-and-dimed by health care costs | Prelipp was serving beer at the Birnamwood Polka Days festival on a muggy June day. Pro-Trump hats peppered the crowd, and against the backdrop of cheerful polka tunes, peppy dancing, and the sweet smell of freshly cut hay, candidates for l... |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Health | Young gay Latinos see rising share of new HIV cases, leading to call for targeted funding | While African Americans continue to have the highest HIV rates in the United States overall, Latinos made up the largest share of new HIV diagnoses and infections among gay and bisexual men in 2022, per the most recent data available, compa... |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Health | States struggle to help patients navigate insurance hurdle known as ‘step therapy’ | But patient advocacy groups and physicians say doctors, not insurers, are best qualified to know which drug or treatment is likely to be most effective. Delaying the implementation of that decision, they say, often harms patients.
At least ... |
| Jun 7, 2024 | Heat rules for California workers would also help keep schoolchildren cool | Sacramento, Calif. — Proposed rules to protect California workers from extreme heat would extend to schoolchildren, requiring school districts to find ways to keep classrooms cool.
If the standards are approved this month, employers in the ... |
| Jun 6, 2024 | National Politics | ‘So much death’: Lawmakers weigh stricter speed limits, safer roads for pedestrians | The nation’s road system covers 4 million miles and is governed by a patchwork of federal, state, and local jurisdictions that often operate in silos, making systemic change difficult and expensive. But amid the highest number of pedestrian... |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Health | Psychoactive drugs are having a moment. The FDA will soon weigh in | Proponents hope the efforts could yield the first major new therapies for mental illness since the introduction of modern antidepressants in the 1980s. But not all researchers are convinced that their benefits have been validated, or proper... |
| May 28, 2024 | Psychoactive drugs like ketamine and MDMA are having a moment. The FDA will soon weigh in. | Lori Tipton is among the growing number of people who say that MDMA, also known as ecstasy, saved their lives.
Raised in New Orleans by a mother with untreated bipolar disorder who later killed herself and two others, Tipton said she endure... |
| May 10, 2024 | Without Maternal Mental Health and Substance Use Interventions, We Can’t Address the Maternal Mortality Crisis | May 1, 2024, marked World Maternal Mental Health Day, and on May 12, 2024, we will celebrate Mother’s Day. While maternal health is a recognized public health crisis in the United States, mental health, substance misuse, and substance use d... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Oregon Medicaid patients get air conditioning, mini fridges as climate change drives health concerns | Oregon is shipping air conditioners, air purifiers and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly health effects of extreme heat, wildfire s... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs | For decades, concerns about automobile pollution have focused on what comes out of the tailpipe. Now, researchers and regulators say, we need to pay more attention to toxic emissions from tires as vehicles roll down the road.
At the top of ... |
| Mar 8, 2024 | Biden team, UnitedHealth struggle to restore paralyzed billing systems after cyberattack | Margaret Parsons, one of three dermatologists at a 20-person practice in Sacramento, California, is in a bind.
Since a Feb. 21 cyberattack on a previously obscure medical payment processing company, Change Healthcare, Parsons said, she and ... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Health | FDA’s plan to ban hair relaxer chemical called too little, too late | Ronnie Cohen | (TNS) KFF Health News
In April, a dozen years after a federal agency classified formaldehyde a human carcinogen, the Food and Drug Administration is tentatively scheduled to unveil a proposal to consider banning the chemical ... |
| Feb 13, 2024 | Health | Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’ | Angela Hart | (TNS) KFF Health News
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sick... |
| Feb 6, 2024 | What Primary Care’s “Barnes & Noble Moment” Means for the Future of Digital Health | Impossibly, it’s already been 25 years since Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks fell in love to the soundtrack of dial-up internet in the movie You’ve Got Mail. At the time, independent bookstores (“Shop Around the Corner” in the film) were under threa... |
| Dec 19, 2023 | Health | As foundation for ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis cracks, fallout spreads | Renuka Rayasam, Markian Hawryluk, Samantha Young | KFF Health News (TNS)
When Angelo Quinto’s family learned that officials blamed his 2020 death on “excited delirium,” a term they had never heard before, they couldn’t believe it. To them, ... |
| Dec 13, 2023 | Sobering centers offer a safe place to recover from intoxication. Every community should have one | Every day, thousands of individuals across the United States call 911 due to concern about someone who is intoxicated in public. Their concern is warranted: The potential harms from public intoxication are significant. They are at risk of b... |
| Dec 7, 2023 | Health | Back pain? Bum knee? Be prepared to wait for a physical therapist | Mark Kreidler | (TNS) KFF Health News
At no point along his three-year path to earning a degree in physical therapy has Matthew Lee worried about getting a job.
Being able to make a living off that degree? That’s a different question — and ... |
| Nov 24, 2023 | Health | The unusual way a Catholic health system is wielding an abortion protest law | Judy Lin | KFF Health News (TNS)
A Catholic hospital system is suing several California patients and their advocates because the patients allegedly refused to be discharged. The suits invoke a novel legal approach: accusing them of trespass... |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Health | Health care ‘game-changer’? Feds boost care for homeless Americans | By Angela Hart, KFF Health News
The Biden administration is making it easier for doctors and nurses to treat homeless people wherever they find them, from creekside encampments to freeway underpasses, marking a fundamental shift in how — an... |
| Oct 12, 2023 | Health | Mothers of color can’t see if providers have a history of mistreatment. Why not? | Sarah Kwon | (TNS) KFF Health News
When Selam Solomon Caldwell and her husband learned she was pregnant last year, the stakes for finding the right OB-GYN felt high. Caldwell, a Black woman, had heard stories from family and friends of mate... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Health | Who polices hospitals merging across markets? States give different answers | Samantha Liss | (TNS) KFF Health News
St. Louis’ largest health system, BJC HealthCare, plans to merge with Kansas City’s second-largest, Saint Luke’s Health System, uniting more than 28 hospitals on both sides of Missouri by the end of thi... |
| Sep 11, 2023 | Health | Heat-related deaths are up, and not just because it’s getting hotter | Phillip Reese | (TNS) KFF Health News
Heat-related illness and deaths in California and the U.S. are on the rise along with temperatures, and an increase in drug use and homelessness is a significant part of the problem, according to public... |
| Jul 7, 2023 | California should become the first state to offer a special minimum wage to health care workers | Lawmakers in California may finally offer a raise to the state’s woefully underpaid health care workforce. The legislature is debating a bill introduced by state Sen. María Elena Durazo that would raise the minimum wage for a wide range of ... |
| Jul 5, 2023 | Health
Health | A new law is supposed to protect pregnant workers — but what if we don’t know how? | Gina Jiménez | Kaiser Health News (TNS)
Vanessa Langness had always been a bit worried about the chemicals she worked with as a biomedical researcher, but when she got pregnant in October, her concerns grew. The 34-year-old based in Santa M... |
| Jun 30, 2023 | The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision puts lives at risk | The past several months have been grim for health in the U.S. In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the lowest life expectancy in more than 25 years. Another CDC report in March showed that maternal mortality ... |
| Jun 28, 2023 | University of La Verne Awarded $2.2 Million Grant to Establish Institute of Mental Health and Psychological Well-Being | “We are committed to ensuring cultural competencies and mental health equity to increase well-being on-campus and in our underserved communities.”
LA VERNE, Calif. (PRWEB) June 28, 2023
The University of La Verne has been awarded a $2.2 mil... |
| Jun 5, 2023 | ‘We’ve Already Made Changes’ to the System: How Doulas Are Advancing Maternal Health Outcomes | As a doula for Austin-based Black Mamas ATX, Ebony Williams helps expectant mothers learn how to advocate for themselves during the birthing process. And she saw the effect of her work just recently when working with a patient from Malawi.
... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | See the 19-slide presentation that got the former Louisiana health chief $15 million to care for families at home | Dr. Rebekah Gee, Nest Health cofounder and CEO. Nest Health This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
A former Louisiana secretary of health is building a startup to get families pr... |
| May 2, 2023 | Long waits to see a doctor are a public health crisis | In 2004, the physician search firm Merritt Hawkins first issued their Survey of Physician Appointment Wait Times. That year, the national average wait to get in to see a new physician was 21 days, an unacceptable amount of time to wait to a... |
| May 2, 2023 | California Launches First Annual California Moves for Physical & Mental Fitness Month | By helping Californians of all ages establish sustainable, healthy habits such as daily movement and mindfulness practices, we can reduce chronic disease and improve their overall quality of life.”
— California First Partner Jennifer Siebel... |
| Apr 25, 2023 | Health
Health | As pandemic emergencies end, people battling long COVID feel ‘swept under the rug’ | Jackie Fortiér | (TNS) KPCC/LAist
Lost careers. Broken marriages. Dismissed and disbelieved by family and friends.
These are some of the emotional and financial struggles long COVID patients face years after their infection. Physically, the... |
| Apr 25, 2023 | California’s lowest paid health workers want a pay boost. Why industry leaders are pushing back | In summary
As hospitals and other health care facilities struggle with staffing shortages, health workers could get a wage increase under a legislative proposal. But some smaller facilities already struggling financially say they can’t affo... |
| Feb 21, 2023 | In California Legislature, 500 bills beat the deadline | California doesn’t really need 2,600 new laws, right?
Nevertheless, state lawmakers proposed 500 new bills on Friday, the 2023 session’s introduction deadline, bringing the total to about 2,600. That’s the most in more than a decade, accord... |
| Feb 15, 2023 | California Democrats propose $25 minimum wage for health workers | Union-aligned Democrats were set to introduce legislation Wednesday mandating a statewide $25 minimum wage for health workers and support staffers, likely setting up a pitched battle with hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis clinics.
Stat... |
| Jan 20, 2023 | After Madera’s hospital closure, could others follow? | In summary
Under financial strain, the lone hospital in this Central Valley county closed its doors this month. Legislators and industry officials say other hospitals across the state may suffer the same fate.
In Madera County, one-fifth of... |
| Nov 17, 2022 | Los requisitos para enfermeras están cambiando y eso les permite practicar sin supervisión médica | EN RESUMEN
Las nuevas reglas mejorarán el acceso a la atención médica en muchas comunidades donde falta, dicen los partidarios. A algunos médicos les preocupa que las reglas amplíen el alcance de los servicios que brindan las enfermeras pra... |
| Nov 17, 2022 | Nurse practitioner requirements are changing, allowing them to practice without physician supervision | In summary
The new rules will improve access to health care in many communities where it is lacking, supporters say. Some physicians are concerned the rules will expand the scope of services nurse practitioners provide.
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| Nov 1, 2022 | California lacks Black doctors. Here’s how the state can add more | In summary
Many Black Californians say they have been treated unfairly or felt disrespected by a health care provider because of their race or ethnicity. A recent study found that increasing the number of Black doctors is the best solution.... |
| Oct 20, 2022 | Looking to expand coverage for mental health, Headway comes to California | The company partners with providers and payers so they can see covered patients
Nearly 1 in 7 adults who live in California has a mental illness, with 1 in 26 having a serious mental illness, meaning one that makes it difficult to carry out... |
| Oct 12, 2022 | Latino-focused healthcare service Zócalo Health launches in California and Texas | The company deploys Latino care teams that are made up of members of the community
Zócalo Health is a healthcare service designed specifically for Latino patients, acting as the “Family Doctor” for each of its members. That means staffing c... |
| Oct 10, 2022 | Community health workers hit the streets to battle the surge in congenital syphilis | In summary
Once considered an infection nearly eradicated, congenital syphilis rates have risen dramatically in California. Community health workers fan out across communities to find and treat patients who are often homeless or battling ad... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | Physician Scientist Prioritizes Voices of Black Birthing Experience | NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES, September 20, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Black mothers die in hospitals at nearly four times the rate of White mothers — an appalling disparity that has persisted for decades despite state and national q... |
| Sep 14, 2022 | Experts question the role of white mulberry in the death of congressman's wife | SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Scientists, doctors, and pathologists are questioning the Sacramento County coroner's conclusion that Lori McClintock's death was related to white mulberry, a plant that has been used as an herbal remedy for c... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | Unanswered cries: Why California faces a shortage of mental health workers | In summary
With demand rising for mental health care, and providers in short supply, experts explain how California got here – and where we may be headed.
The need for therapists, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists is greater t... |
| Aug 25, 2022 | Congressman's wife died after taking herbal remedy marketed for diabetes and weight loss | SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The wife of a Northern California congressman died late last year after ingesting a plant that is generally considered safe and is used as an herbal remedy for a variety of ailments, including diabetes, obesity, and hig... |
| May 31, 2022 | Faulty oxygen readings delayed Covid treatments for darker-skinned patients, study finds | Covid-19 care, including distribution of lifesaving therapies, was significantly delayed for Black and Hispanic patients due to inaccurate oxygen readings from devices that can work poorly in darker-skinned individuals, according to a study... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | HHS’s failure to address the health harms of climate crisis constitutes environmental and institutional racism | The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination against recipients of federal funding, including those covered by Medicaid and Medicare, along with actions that have racially disparate impacts. The Department of Health and Human Services... |
| Mar 21, 2022 | FemTec Health Is Finally Bringing Women Holistic, Personalized Healthcare They Deserve | FemTec Health's Awesome Woman platform is a first direct-to-consumer subscription healthcare service ... [+] for women and females FemTec Health |
| Jan 7, 2022 | In 2022, California’s ballot will be heavy on healthcare | When Californians go to the polls later this year, they will confront contentious healthcare choices.
Voters will weigh whether to overturn a state law that bans flavored tobacco products and will likely consider increasing the cap on medic... |
| Jan 15, 2021 | CVS and Walgreens under fire for slow pace of vaccination in nursing homes | Across the country, some nursing home directors and health care officials say the partnership is actually hampering the vaccination process by imposing paperwork and cumbersome corporate policies on facilities that are thinly staffed and re... |
| Dec 18, 2020 | No more ICU beds at the main public hospital in the nation’s largest county | The woman, in her 60s, was among 50 patients so ill with Covid-19 that they required constant medical attention this week in ICUs at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, a 600-bed public hospital on L.A.’s Eastside. A large majority of th... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | California lawmakers to Gov, Newsom: Give all immigrants health coverage | Rather than working independently, a fiercely liberal state senator from Los Angeles and a moderate Assembly member from the Central Valley are joining forces to pressure Newsom to make California the first state in the nation to cover ever... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | In Becerra, an HHS nominee with political skill but no front-line health experience | Becerra built his career in the U.S. House of Representatives before becoming California’s attorney general, and some wonder whether his political and legal skills would be the right fit to steer HHS through a health catastrophe that’s kill... |
| Dec 7, 2020 | U.S. Healthcare Markets Lack Transparency; Stakeholders Want To Keep It That Way | Disconnection between dollars spent and outcomes achieved in the U.S. healthcare systemGetty |
| Nov 6, 2020 | Create a scorecard to help make safety-net providers accountable to patients and the public | California regulators announced last month plans to evaluate whether safety-net patients face improperly long waits to see medical specialists in Los Angeles County, the nation’s second-largest public health system. That investigation — whi... |
| Sep 15, 2020 | NIH ‘very concerned’ about serious side effect in AstraZeneca's PhIII Covid-19 trial | The FDA is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was halted when a participant suffered spinal cord damage, even as the NIH has launched an investigation of the case.... |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Back to the future: Digital health-led decentralization of healthcare delivery | |
| Jul 22, 2020 | Beyond Covid-19: 5 opportunities for startups to reshape the future healthcare landscape | The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended the world as we know it, taking an unprecedented toll on health and human life. The healthcare ecosystem has quickly mobilized to mitigate the crisis – modifying care access points and modalities w... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | California resists push to lift limits on nurse practitioners during Covid-19 pandemic | SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the demand for health care workers surges with the coronavirus case count, many states are rushing to lift restrictions on nurse practitioners, who provide much of the same care as doctors do.
But California allows n... |