Latest California Healthline Stories
Los Angeles Red Cross Launches Campaign To Increase Number of Latino Blood Donors
The American Red Cross and the Los Angeles Unified School District on Monday planned to launch a campaign to increase blood donations from Latinos in an effort to improve stores of universal donor type O blood, the Los Angeles Times reports.
CMS Agrees To Increase Time Pharmaceutical Companies Must Retain Medicaid Price Records to 10 Years
CMS on Tuesday agreed to increase the length of time to 10 years that pharmaceutical companies must retain records about the prices that they charge Medicaid for their products, according to Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly (D), the Boston Herald reports.
Democratic Senators Propose To Address Issue of the Uninsured in Next Congressional Session
Senators at a Democratic Policy Committee hearing on Tuesday proposed advancing efforts to extend health insurance to the nation’s 43.6 million uninsured residents, CongressDaily reports.
San Francisco Chronicle Examines Adoption of Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Programs
Los Angeles County is the only county in the state that has implemented a program under a law (AB 1421) that allows court-ordered involuntary treatment for some people with mental illnesses, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Fast-Food Chain McDonald’s Launches Educational Campaign To Help Dieters
McDonald’s on Tuesday launched “Real Life Choices,” an educational campaign at 650 of its restaurants in New York, New Jersey and southern Connecticut that tells customers how to reduce carbohydrates, fat and calories in existing menu choices by altering their orders, the Washington Times reports.
Kaiser Permanente Northern California To Offer Members DNA Test for Cervical Cancer
Kaiser Permanente in Northern California will become the first health system in the nation to provide women a routine DNA test to screen for cervical cancer risk, officials of the Oakland-based HMO announced Tuesday, the Sacramento Bee reports.
Obesity Rates Higher Among U.S. Teens Than Those in 14 Other Nations, Study Finds
U.S. teens have higher rates of being obese and overweight than teens from 14 other industrialized countries, according to a study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, USA Today reports.
California Nurses Association Begins Campaign To Monitor Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
The California Nurses Association on Tuesday announced a campaign to identify hospitals that fail to comply with the new state nurse-to-patient ratio rules that took effect on Thursday, the Sacramento Bee reports.
Securities and Exchange Commission, FDA Begin To Draft Plan To Reduce Investigation Times
Officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the FDA have begun to draft a plan to help reduce investigation times for cases in which pharmaceutical companies allegedly mislead investors about the chances for approval of experimental medications, Bloomberg/Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Three-Quarters of Striking Grocery Store Workers Now Ineligible for Union Health Coverage
About 77% of the 70,000 striking and locked-out unionized supermarket workers at Albertsons, Kroger-owned Ralphs and Safeway-owned Vons lost their health care coverage on Jan. 1 and must pay to keep their health insurance active because they did not work enough hours in October to maintain coverage, according to union officials, the Orange County Register reports.