Latest California Healthline Stories
LA Failing To Properly Protect Residents Who Live Alongside Oil Wells
“The potential public health impacts of oil and gas sites located in densely populated areas are concerning,” the new study’s authors wrote, “particularly to those who experience disproportionate economic and health inequities.”
After Daughter’s Death From Flu, Mother Leads Charge Against Anti-Vaccination Mentality
Three-quarters of this year’s pediatric flu deaths were in children who had not been vaccinated.
Millions Of Mental Health Dollars Go Unused In California
The funds come from Proposition 63, a 2004 initiative that levies a 1 percent income tax on people who earn $1 million or more in a year. A report found that the state isn’t doing enough to reclaim the money.
There were accusations that the San Joaquin sheriff-coroner was inappropriately interfering with autopsies. Sen. Cathleen Galgiani of Stockton, who is pushing for the change, says autopsies, especially in officer-involved cases, should not be subject to any conflict of interest.
Judge Rules Cancer Warning Label On Weed Killer Would Be Misleading
Only one health organization has found that the substance in question, glyphosate, causes cancer. The judge has blocked the warning label requirements from going into place in California.
Health Law’s Middle-Ground Approach Based On GOP Ideology No Longer Good Enough For Liberals
Democrats and liberal activists are no longer satisfied with a strategy that maintains private insurers’ primary role. They’re starting to focus instead on expanding popular government programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
The states also say in the suit that because the health law doesn’t have a “severability clause” — a provision that says if one part of the law is struck by the courts, the rest would stand — if one part of it is struck down, the rest is invalid.
An outdated law currently bars Medicaid from paying for treatment in mental health facilities with more than 16 beds. The administration has already opened the way for states to seek waivers from the policy in cases involving treatment for substance abuse, so mental health treatments could be next. Meanwhile, outlets look at what Congress can realistically do on gun control and the limits on gun research.
Man Who Operated 13 Drug Treatment Centers Convicted Of Sexually Assaulting Patients
The case highlights the fact that the treatment centers exist without much regulation or oversight.
LA Launches Recruitment Efforts To Woo Doctors Into Working In Jail System
The county Board of Supervisors approved a plan to pay up to $120,000 in student loans as an incentive to attract specialists who can join right out of their residency program, and senior physicians with at least five years out of residency and some program oversight experience.