Latest California Healthline Stories
Embattled Zenefits Cuts Deals With Investors In Effort To Reset Reputation
The move cuts the once-celebrated company’s valuation to about $2 billion.
Culture Changes, More Than Penalties, Needed To Cut Hospital Errors: Experts
Experts agree that there won’t be a reduction in medical errors until everyone, from nurses to janitors, feels comfortable speaking up when they see a problem in the offing.
Vaccination Opponents Mull Moving States, Homeschooling As Law Goes Into Effect
Senate Bill 277 requires nearly all California schoolchildren to be fully vaccinated.
Officials: Studying Zika’s Sexual Transmission Risk Can’t Wait For Congress
Public health officials are borrowing money from other programs so researchers can delve into how Zika is transmitted sexually, a study that could impact millions of Americans and could take years to complete. “We are going out on a limb, but we have to,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Meanwhile, a new poll shows that a large majority of Americans want federal money to go toward fighting the virus.
Black Infant Health Program Closing
The initiative is part of a a state program enacted in California in 1989, when public health officials noticed a disparity in infant mortality among African Americans statewide.
Unsure How To Help Son, Woman Launches Weight Loss App For Kids
The program focuses on fostering health nutrition rather than calorie counting.
Heart Disease No. 1 Cause Of Death For Americans
Cancer comes in at No. 2, and combined they cause nearly 50 percent of all deaths in the country. In other public health news, church attendance is linked to lower suicide. rates
Calif. VA Medical Center Stalls Amid Zika Squabbling In Washington
The California project is a passenger aboard a roughly $83 billion funding vehicle that had seemed headed to the White House for a signature until the wheels came off on Capitol Hill.
Analysis Finds High Number Of Doctors At 14 San Diego Hospitals Take Industry Gifts
The analysis by ProPublica shows that the hospital’s owner is an important factor in whether a doctor has received gifts or payments from the drug or medical device industry. Of doctors affiliated with Kaiser Permanente, which has strict policies to restrict such activities, 27 percent took payments, whereas at Scripps Green Hospital 83.8 percent did.
Congressional Republicans Ask Administration To Reject Calif. Request On Immigrants’ Insurance
California is asking for a federal waiver so that the state’s online insurance marketplace can sell policies to people who are in the country without proper authority.