Latest California Healthline Stories
Study Sheds Light On Need For More Research About Teens’ Smartphone Usage, ADHD Symptoms
The research suggests that there’s at least a casual link, but experts don’t know the extent of the connection.
Small Rural Community Has Third-Highest Suicide Rate In State, And People Want To Know Why
There’s a combination of factors — rural areas tend to skew to an older population, many veterans have settled in the area — that make the suicide rate in Amador County more than twice Sacramento’s.
Infant’s Death From Whooping Cough Prompts Officials To Urge Pregnant Women To Get Vaccinated
The disease is most dangerous to babies too young to be vaccinated, which is why the officials concentrate on making sure the mothers get their shots.
Dignity Health, Anthem Get Extension For Reimbursement Rate Negotiations
If a decision can’t be reached eventually, then Dignity Health physicians will no longer be part of Anthem’s in-network providers.
Court Rules Health Benefits Of Cereals Outweigh Need For Cancer Labels
Requiring warnings on all foods containing acrylamide at levels that pose any risk of cancer “would cause many otherwise healthy foods to appear to consumers to be unhealthful,” the court said.
Kavanaugh Took Swipe At Administration Just Days Before Nomination With Ruling On Medicare Payments
The hospitals that brought the suit said Medicare had been using the flawed data since 1983. The federal government tried to bar their claims, saying hospitals should not be able to challenge factual determinations made many years ago. “Saving money is a laudable goal,” Judge Brett Kavanaugh said, “but not one that may be pursued by using phony facts to shift costs onto the backs of hospitals.”
House Ways And Means Chairman Working With Trump To Figure Out Ways To Unfreeze Insurer Payments
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) left open the possibility of legislative action to restore the payments that are made to insurers to help stabilize the marketplaces. The administration had frozen the program off of a judge’s order from earlier in the year. Democrats also chimed in, asking for the funds to be unfrozen.
Judge Grants Request To Temporarily Halt Deportations Of Families That Have Been Reunited
“Persistent rumors” of mass deportations had advocates worried that immigrants were giving up their right to pursue an asylum claim as the price for recovering their children.
With Its Eye On Customer Demand For Convenience, Scripps To Launch A Dozen Walk-In Health Clinics
Services will include care for those with flu symptoms, ear infections, sinus infections, urinary tract infections, skin conditions, bites, stings and minor cuts, burns and wounds.
Brain Scans Try To Take Guesswork Out Of High Schoolers’ Football Injuries
Research emerging in the past several years has revealed just how much damage those injuries can do to young people.