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In addition, the federal government is allowing the nonprofit running the detention facility in Texas to sidestep mental health care requirements. Under federal policy, migrant youth shelters generally must have one mental health clinician for every 12 kids, but the federal agency’s contract with BCFS allows it to staff Tornillo with just one clinician for every 100 children. Meanwhile, a report finds that family separations at the border have quietly resumed.
The disaster team also helped patients reconnect with doctors, locate lost medicine, and address chronic illness that was aggravated by the fires.
California Agriculture Officials Worry Stigma From E. Coli Outbreak Will Linger For Years To Come
The Food and Drug Administration has warned people not to eat romaine coming from California’s Central Coast region, which is one of the nation’s major production areas of the lettuce.
In Face Of Intense Government Scrutiny, Juul To Retool Product To Lower Nicotine Levels
Some experts though said the higher vapor in the new products could potentially make the pods even more addictive, increasing the risk particularly to young people, whose developing brains are more susceptible to the addictive qualities of nicotine.
LA County Officials Reach Tentative Eleventh Hour Deal To Avert Nurses’ Strike
More than 7,000 nurses, including those who worked in emergency rooms, operating rooms and intensive care units, had planned to begin a four-day strike Tuesday morning over staffing ratios.
Rep. Scott Peters (D-San Diego), who serves on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, has requested hearings over the whistleblowers’ allegations. “It looks like the VA may have known about this for awhile while it was happening and didn’t act fast enough to stop it,” Peters said.
Appeals Court Overturns Ruling That Had Briefly Blocked California’s Aid-In-Dying Law
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Daniel Ottolia halted enforcement of the law in May, ruling that state lawmakers had illegally considered and passed the legislation during a special session devoted to health care. However, the appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the doctors who had filed that suit had nothing to gain or lose from its enforcement, and thus lacked legal standing to sue.
Up To 800,000 More Californians Are Likely To Be Without Health Coverage In 2023, Report Projects
The anticipated rise is largely because the health law’s individual mandate requirement to buy health insurance is being phased out in 2019. The report recommended officials enact policies to stave off the increase, including passing a state-level mandate and offering state-funded financial assistance to low-income consumers to help pay for premiums.
Government Watchdog To Investigate Allegations Of Shadowy Mar-A-Lago Trio’s Improper Influence On VA
Th three men are said to be confidantes of President Donald Trump. “Membership in President Trump’s private club, alone, is not sufficient to have an informed opinion on the best way to deliver care and benefits to our nation’s veterans,” said Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), the lawmakers who requested the GAO investigation.
He Jiankui of Shenzhen says he altered the embryos to change a gene so that it might provide the resulting babies with a trait few people naturally have — protection against future infection from the AIDS virus. The research is unsubstantiated, but it created an immediate and fierce outcry among scientists who have been grappling with the ethics of gene editing long before the technology even existed.