Regulators estimate California’s climate policies could reduce the cost of hospitalizations, asthma cases, and lost work and school days by $199 billion in 2045 alone.
California is poised to protect workers from extreme heat — indoors
As the climate warms and the threat of extreme heat spreads, California is poised to protect people who work in indoor job sites where temperatures can soar.
‘Everybody in this community has a gun’: How Oakland lost its grip on gun violence
Oaklanders, many of whom take pride in the ethnic diversity of their city, are overwhelmingly upset about the rise in violent crime — the shootings, thefts, and other street crimes.
California bans controversial ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Oct. 8 to prohibit coroners, medical examiners, physicians, or physician assistants from listing excited delirium on a person’s death certificate or in an autopsy report.
Feds say hospitals that redistribute Medicaid money violate law
The Biden administration wants to crack down on private arrangements among some hospitals to reimburse themselves for taxes that help fund coverage for low-income people. It contends the practice violates federal law.
The nation’s health secretary has this doctor on call
Carolina Reyes, a Harvard-trained physician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, got into medicine to help women obtain health care, especially underserved or marginalized people who face systemic racism.
For California teen, coverage of a early psychosis treatment proved a lifesaver
The 16-year-old from Rio Linda, a suburb of Sacramento, was the fortunate beneficiary of what her mom described as lifesaving mental health care from an early psychosis program at the University of California-Davis, covered largely by Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid.
