Latest California Healthline Stories
CDC Chief Resigns Following Reports She Traded In Tobacco Stocks While Running Agency
“After advising Secretary Azar of both the status of the financial interests and the scope of her recusal, Dr. [Brenda] Fitzgerald tendered, and the Secretary accepted, her resignation,” the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
LA Board Wants To Give Health Officials More Power To Forcibly Treat Mentally Ill Homeless People.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a motion urging state lawmakers to broaden the definition of “gravely disabled.” Doing so would allow officials to put mentally ill homeless people on involuntary psychiatric holds if a court determines that because of a person’s mental illness, he or she is not able to seek medical care.
With Families Returning Home After Mudslides, Worries Turn To Diseases That Were Left Behind
“We know that there’s high bacteria levels and bacteria, and I’m more concerned about bacteria than anything else, quite honestly,” said Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Deputy Director Susan Klein-Rothschild. Meanwhile, Ventura County Medical Resource Foundation specialists are donating care to low-income families affected by the Thomas Fire.
Can This Google Technology Predict If Hospital Patients Are Going To Die?
To make its predictions, the software uses medical-records data including patient demographics, previous diagnoses and procedures, lab results and vital signs.
A Game-Changer Or ‘Corporate PR’? Billionaires’ Health Initiative Draws Skepticism, Curiosity
But experts seem to have a common tone: it’s going to be pretty hard to “disrupt” the fairly intractable health industry. Media outlets take a deeper look at the partnership between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, where it could be headed, what may be involved and how it already rattled the stock markets.
Midnight Deadline To Enroll On California’s Health Exchange Ticks Closer
Covered California has previously said the pace of new enrollees for the current open-enrollment period remains ahead of last year.
Health care barely made an appearance in talking points the White House distributed to surrogates over the weekend. Some say it’s because focusing on the topic would unnecessarily spotlight Republicans’ failure over the past year to replace the Affordable Care Act.
Wearables Don’t Really Make People Healthier, But Don’t Write Them Off Quite Yet
Researchers say the technology is ripe to be improved upon so that it will eventually be good enough to change health outcomes.
Suit Filed To Halt Orange County’s Efforts To Dismantle Homeless Encampment
People began relocating to a three-mile stretch of the Santa Ana River Trail last winter from the dismantled Fountain Valley encampment along the bike path.
Hospitals Have Been Overwhelmed By Influx Of Patients This Flu Season
Some are barring visitors from the waiting room to save chairs for patients, while others have had to set up tents to accommodate the overflow.