Latest California Healthline Stories
Daily Edition for Monday, November 7, 2022
Monday’s roundup covers the elections, abortion, KP earnings, covid, “tripledemic” worries, fentanyl, ER crowding, and more.
Daily Edition for Friday, November 4, 2022
Friday’s roundup covers Medicaid, the housing crisis, covid, boosters, opioids, bird flu, abortion, RSV, and more.
Daily Edition for Thursday, November 3, 2022
Thursday’s roundup covers the elections, pregnancy centers, TB, covid variants, RSV, monkeypox spread, depression, abortion, and more.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Wednesday’s roundup covers the RSV surge, covid boosters, abortion access, colonoscopies, monkeypox, elections, open enrollment, and more.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Tuesday’s roundup covers the RSV surge and vaccine development, covid, Covered California enrollment, hospital penalties, ballot measures, and more.
Daily Edition for Monday, October 31, 2022
Monday’s Halloween edition covers candy safety, fentanyl, covid, abortion, housing, California hospitals, and more.
Daily Edition for Friday, October 28, 2022
In California, Some Latinos With Disabilities Don’t Get As Much Help As Whites Do: The system charged with ensuring that California adults with developmental disabilities get crucial services is plagued with stark differences in spending by race, ethnicity, and where people live, according to a report released Wednesday by a disability advocacy group. Read more from the Los Angeles Times and Southern California News Group.
Daily Edition for Thursday, October 27, 2022
Health Care System At Sacramento County Jail Is ‘Broken,’ Report Says: A damning new 101-page report on the state of health care inside Sacramento County’s jail system described it as having a chronic shortage of nurses and doctors, medical treatment areas that are “cluttered, dirty, and in many cases filthy,” and an overcrowding problem so severe that the Main Jail has twice as many inmates as it was originally designed to hold. Read more from The Sacramento Bee.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, October 26, 2022
San Diego Greenlights Plan To Fight Opioid Abuse: San Diego County supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a framework in anticipation of an expected $100 million in settlement money from pharmaceutical companies to address the region’s opioid crisis. Read more from Times of San Diego and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Tuesday’s roundup covers private hospital pay, telehealth, shifting covid symptoms, boosters, flu season, abortion, and more.