Latest California Healthline Stories
Advocates See Recent Sweep Of Soda Taxes As Watershed Moment
Cash-strapped cities are beginning to realize the benefits of the tax that’s gaining wider acceptance with the general population.
Nursing Strike At Sharp Averted After ‘Significant Movement’ In Negotiations
A union spokesman, however, says it might only be a temporary reprieve.
Surging Out-Of-Pocket Drug Costs Prompt Calls To Allow Medicare To Negotiate
The cost of medicine per Medicare beneficiary rose 8.4 percent annually between 2013 and 2015.
Heritage Foundation Urges Congress To ‘Go Further’ On Repeal
The conservative think tank laid out a “repeal and replace” plan that would roll back the ACA’s rules around plans’ age rating, essential benefits and actuarial value limits. The experts also said Republicans should institute “sensible rules” to maintain protections for patients with pre-existing conditions but prevent those patients from gaming the system.
College Of Osteopathic Medicine To Open In Clovis Fall 2019
The medical school would help address a shortage of doctors in the central San Joaquin Valley.
Surge In STDs Attributed To Perfect Storm Of Rise In Reporting, Lower Condom Use
Experts are particularly concerned by the increasing rate of syphilis among women, and in particular pregnant women
Medical Board Gives Santa Ana Doctor Accused Of Gross Negligence 8 Years Probation
According to the California Medical Board’s legal documents, Dr. Kent Lehman prescribed high doses of opiates to 20 patients without properly examining them.
He Was Told Medicine Was Too Hard For A Black Man. He Didn’t Listen.
Dr. Richard Butcher died earlier this month, but he’ll be remembered for his work with San Diego’s under-served populations.
Advocates Rally To Defend ACA: ‘Attacks On Health Care Have Got To Go’
About 200 health care workers, nurses, advocates and patients gathered in Los Angeles to protest Republicans’ plans to dismantle the health law.
Pelosi Says Republicans Will ‘Overplay Their Hands’ If They Try To Cut Medicare
The House Democratic leader pledges to fight any GOP efforts to overhaul the health program that serves older Americans.