USA Today: Camp Fire: The List Of Missing People Drops To 25
More than three weeks after the Camp Fire began ravaging Northern California, the Butte County Sheriff announced Saturday the number of unaccounted for has dropped to 25 people. The lift of missing has fluctuated since the fire began on Nov. 8, reaching a high of 1,276 people on Nov. 17. The missing list began at 35, returning to double digits for the first time Friday when it shrunk from 196 to 49. (Lam, 12/2)

Capital Public Radio: Weeks After Losing Her Home, Camp Fire Survivor To Guide Low-Vision Runner At California International Marathon 
When California’s deadliest wildfire blazed through the small Butte County town of Paradise, resident Deb Yoder was in Micronesia with just a few belongings. Fortunately, she’d packed her running shoes. The marathoner worked part-time as a nurse at Adventist Health Feather River Hospital, which suffered extensive damage in the fire, according to the Chico Enterprise-Record. (Caiola, 12/2)

Sacramento Bee: CA Doctor Analyzing Gun Violence Says NRA Tweet Helped Research
In the days after the NRA tweet, doctors around the nation and even some around the world began posting sometimes-graphic, sometimes-poignant messages that shined a light on just how gun violence spills into their practices and why they are invested in seeing it prevented. Their rebuke to the NRA coalesced into trending themes #ThisIsOurLane and #ThisIsMyLane, prompting hundreds of thousands of retweets and more than 500,000 likes. (Anderson, 12/2)

Fresno Bee: Mental Health & Suicide Takes Toll On Lives Of Police Officers
Publicized deaths of officers mostly are of those who have died in the line of duty, but suicide takes more police lives nationwide than the number killed while on the job. In 2017, there were 129 officers in the U.S. who died in the line of duty in contrast to 140 officer suicides, according to the Ruderman Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to increase awareness about mental health. (Anderson, 11/30)

Los Angeles Times: Loretta Jones, Who Fought For Better Healthcare In L.A.'s Inner City, Dies At 77
A prolific foster-care mom whose 1979 move from Massachusetts to Los Angeles led to a collaboration with UCLA researchers that helped bridge the gap between community care and academia, Jones died Nov. 22 from esophageal cancer. Since 2011, Jones served as associate director of the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute, a research group focused on combining laboratory science with clinical and community experience to shape practical medical interventions “that improve the health of individuals and the public.” (Smith, 12/1)

San Francisco Chronicle: The Work-From-Home Doctor Will See You Now 
Telemedicine is making urgent care faster and more accessible for many patients but, as Doctor On Demand shows, it’s also changing the way doctors work. Gone are the instruments of the familiar exam room, like thermometers and blood pressure cuffs — and the daily commute. (Ho, 12/1)

Dallas Morning News: McKesson, Nation's Sixth Largest Company, Is Moving Corporate HQ From California To Irving
McKesson Corp., the nation’s largest pharmaceutical distributor, announced today that it will relocate its headquarters from San Francisco to Irving in April. The company, which delivers prescription drugs and medical supplies, has more than 75,000 employees globally and had revenue of $208 billion last year. It ranks sixth on the Fortune 500 list, behind only Walmart, Exxon Mobil, Berkshire Hathaway, Apple and UnitedHealth Group. (Repko, 12/1)

In other news from across the state —

The San Diego Union-Tribune: Administrator For Beverly Hills Doctor Convicted In San Diego Of Kickback, Insurance Fraud Scheme 
A San Diego County jury convicted a medical office administrator on Thursday for his role in a massive patient referral fraud scheme that previously landed his boss a 10-year federal prison sentence, prosecutors said Friday. Gonzalo Paredes, 62, was convicted after a nine-day trial on 51 felony counts of paying illegal kickbacks to a doctor for patient referrals and fraudulently billing workers’ compensation insurance companies in California, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. (Riggins, 11/30)

Fresno Bee: Can A Patient In A California Mental Hospital Run For Office? 
In the weeks leading up to the November election, Coalinga Mayor Nathan Vosburg was scrambling to get people to vote. But his sense of urgency wasn’t just in the name of voter turnout. He worried that a sexually violent predator living at Coalinga State Hospital was going to be elected to City Council. (Mays, 11/30)

East Bay Times: Los Medanos Healthcare Delivers Signatures Of Support To LAFCO
In a move they hope will save the Los Medanos Community Health Care District from being dissolved, district employees and advocates submitted more than 16,500 signatures Friday to put its fate in the hands of voters. The embattled district had until Friday to present 10,874 verifiable signatures to temporarily halt the dissolution, which the Local Agency Formation Commission approved earlier this fall and reaffirmed Nov. 14 when it rejected the district’s request to reconsider the ordered shutdown. Itika Greene, Los Medanos’ executive director, said advocates had only five weeks to collect the signatures from residents of Pittsburg, Bay Point and parts of Antioch, Concord, Clayton and Clyde who are served by the district. (Prieve, 11/30)