Latest California Healthline Stories
Texas Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Calif. Activists Behind Planned Parenthood Videos
They agreed with defense attorneys that the grand jury exceeded its authority by investigating the activists after clearing Planned Parenthood of wrongdoing.
Study: Doctors Reject Those With Covered California Plans More Often
Secret shoppers called for appointments around the state trying once with a Covered California plan and a second time with its non-exchange counterpart. The gap in access was stark in some places.
CMS Proposes Set Price For Treating Heart Attacks To Curb Spending, Boost Quality
If implemented, Medicare would set a fixed payment for all services provided during the treatment of a heart attack, instead of letting the hospital bill for each separately.
Sanders Emphasizes Clinton’s Health Care Concessions In Convention Speech
In his endorsement at the Democratic National Convention, Bernie Sanders touted his efforts to pull Hillary Clinton toward his stances on health care, including proposals to let people join Medicare early and increase funding for community health centers.
San Diego State University Raises $130M For Research
The funding includes a $10 million endowment that will be used to study disparities in the public’s access to health care, $2 million for autism research and $2 million to help in the development of new antibiotics.
Study: Doctors Should Listen More Closely To Patients’ Observations
“When a patient says, ‘I don’t feel like my health is very good right now,’ it’s a meaningful thing with a biological basis, even if they don’t show symptoms,” says Christopher Fagundes, the study’s author.
Physicians Turn To Marijuana To Ease Agitation, Aggression In Alzheimer’s Patients
For Sonoma County assisted-living facilities, the treatment is “well known and very popular.” In other news, a study on children’s exposure to marijuana could prove as a cautionary tale for California.
DIY Scientists Take Creating Treatments, Finding Cures Into Own Hands
A group of scientists at a crowdfunded lab in Oakland have set an ambitious goal to create human insulin to help relieve the global shortage.
Zenefits Settles With Tennessee In First Of Multiple Investigations Into Its Practices
Officials in several states are looking into the San Francisco-based company after it failed to get the necessary licenses for its sales staff to broker health insurance benefits.
For Prop 47 Advocates, Battle To Fund Mental Health, Substance Abuse Programs Isn’t Over
The measure, which downgraded certain petty criminal offenses, was supposed to create savings to be used for mental health and substance abuse treatment. But the formula used by the state has the amount of money devoted to the programs falling quite short of the original estimates.