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Daily Edition for Friday, May 30, 2025
Prison mental health; MAHA report errors; Medicaid and ACA; doctors moving to Canada; hospital watch; measles; covid; and more.
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Daily Edition for Tuesday, May 27, 2025
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Daily Edition for Friday, May 23, 2025
Health program cuts in tax bill; covid shot safety; children’s health; wildfire detection; hospital watch; homelessness; and more.
Daily Edition for Thursday, May 22, 2025
Abortion protections tested; lead exposure; Medi-Cal and Trump’s tax bill; earthquake retrofit grants canceled; AI in call centers; and more.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Hospital Warns Its ER Might Have To Close: Willows-based Glenn Medical Center said its emergency department could close after its critical access designation was removed by CMS in April, according to a May 19 post on the hospital’s Facebook page. Read more from Becker’s Hospital Review.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Psychiatric Hospital Abused Patients For Years, State Finds: The state’s watchdog agency for people with disabilities has found that College Hospital in Cerritos (Los Angeles County), a for-profit psychiatric hospital, abused patients for years by excessively and improperly strapping them down and drugging them in violation of federal and state regulations. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Daily Edition for Monday, May 19, 2025
Suspected Fertility Clinic Bomber May Be Linked To Manifesto With Fringe Views: The car bombing outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic appears to have been driven by anti-natalist ideology, or the belief that no one should have children, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident. Investigators are focusing on social media posts made by the suspect, Guy Edward Bartkus, including a 30-minute audio recording. The posts and recording are still being verified. Read more from NBC News.
Daily Edition for Friday, May 16, 2025
Group Asks State To Pay For Post-Fire Soil Testing: Environmental researchers are calling on the Newsom administration to pay for soil testing at thousands of homes destroyed in the Eaton and Palisades wildfires. They are imploring officials not to abandon the state’s wildfire-recovery protocols, namely the policy to conduct soil sampling. Federal disaster agencies have refused to do that work. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.