Latest California Healthline Stories
Daily Edition for Friday, April 18, 2025
Californians Can Air Their Social Security Grievances: Attorney General Rob Bonta has launched oag.ca.gov/socialsecurity, an online portal for residents to report issues related to accessing services, such as disability benefits. Complaints registered on the site will help inform any future legal action. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily Edition for Thursday, April 17, 2025
Fatal Drug Overdoses Rise in San Francisco: Accidental drug overdose deaths in San Francisco rose for the fourth straight month after showing a promising decline last year, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by the Office of the Medical Examiner. Sixty-five people fatally overdosed in March, bringing the monthly average to 64 over the past three months. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Fresno County Sees Large Spike In Domestic Violence Calls: Between 2019 and 2023, domestic violence calls to law enforcement more than doubled in Fresno County from roughly 6,500 to more than 13,300, according to data provided to the state Department of Justice by local police and sheriff’s departments across California. Read more from The Intersection.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, April 15, 2025
California Closes Medicaid Funding Gap: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday to close a $2.8 billion budget gap in the state’s Medicaid services and ensure coverage through June for 15 million people, including immigrants, who receive health care via the program. Read more from AP.
Daily Edition for Monday, April 14, 2025
The Robot Will See You Now: Robots are roaming the hallways at El Camino Health, helping to deliver medications and take samples to the laboratory. They are among the new technologies implemented to improve efficiency while allowing clinicians to focus on patient care. Read more from Bay Area News Group.
Daily Edition for Friday, April 11, 2025
Biomedical Research Hub Coming To San Diego: Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis plans to build a $1.1 billion research hub in San Diego as part of its $23 billion investment in U.S. operations over the next five years. It will create nearly 1,000 jobs at Novartis and about 4,000 jobs in the U.S. as the company adds seven facilities. Read more from The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Daily Edition for Thursday, April 10, 2025
Modesto Shelter Doubles Size Of Its Recuperative Care Program: Thanks to a $313,000 grant from Health Net, a managed care organization, and CalAIM, the state’s initiative to improve Medi-Cal, Modesto Gospel Mission completed an expansion of its recuperative care facility for men at the end of March. Recuperative care is designed to transition homeless people in need of a place to heal after hospitalizations. Read more from The Intersection.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Batten Tapped As Chief Medical Officer For LA28: Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai has appointed Casey Batten, MD, as chief medical officer for the 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Dr. Batten, a sports medicine specialist at the health system, will oversee all aspects of medical planning and care delivery for the Los Angeles Games. He will also sit on the International Olympic Committee’s Medical and Scientific Commission. Read more from Becker’s Hospital Review.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, April 8, 2025
DOGE Cuts Force Shutdown Of Wastewater Testing In San Diego County: Since February 2021, the San Diego Epidemiology and Research for COVID Health program (SEARCH) has used advanced science to analyze wastewater samples, eventually expanding to include other infectious diseases. But those efforts ground to a halt Monday after researchers received word that the roughly $400,000 per year provided by the county’s public health department would cease. Read more from The San Diego Union-Tribune. Keep reading for more on the federal budget cuts.
Daily Edition for Monday, April 7, 2025
Newsom Decries ‘Irrational And Malicious’ USDA Funding Cuts: Gov. Gavin Newsom sent an urgent appeal to the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Saturday, imploring the department to reverse the abrupt cancellation of a Biden-era program that feeds millions of California families. The cuts "will not only hurt our farmers, but also the families who need food banks,” Newsom said in a release announcing the appeal. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.