Latest California Healthline Stories
Daily Edition for Tuesday, June 10, 2025
California Democrats Reject Newsom's Deep Budget Cuts: California legislative leaders announced Monday that they reached a budget proposal to address the state’s $12 billion expected deficit, leaning heavily on borrowing from other state funds to continue providing social services rather than making the deep cuts Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed. Read more from CalMatters.
Daily Edition for Monday, June 9, 2025
South Coast AQMD Rebuffs Efforts To Phase Out Some Gas-Powered Appliances: After a contentious, five-hour hearing, Southern California air quality regulators on Friday rejected measures that would have phased out residential gas-powered water heaters and furnaces in the Los Angeles basin. The rules were aimed at reducing emissions of smog-contributing pollutants linked to asthma, allergies, premature death, and more. Read more from CalMatters and AP.
Daily Edition for Friday, June 6, 2025
Asthma care; Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA changes in tax bill; AmeriCorps cuts; nursing homes; homelessness; brain health; and more.
Daily Edition for Thursday, June 5, 2025
Gun violence prevention funding; the homelessness crisis; Medicaid cuts; ICE raids in hospitals; 23andMe; and more.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Nursing home safety; Obamacare; emergency abortions; Sutter Health expansion; ambulance costs; mental health care; and more.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Mental health phone line; Covered California; Medicaid and vaccine research finding; transgender care; measles; wildfires; and more.
Daily Edition for Monday, June 2, 2025
Medi-Cal eligibility; summer covid surge; vaccine access; HIV prevention funding; violence in hospitals; cancer research; and more.
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.
Daily Edition for Thursday, May 29, 2025
Air and food safety; Medicaid cuts; transgender care; biomedical research; vaccines; homelessness; and more.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Homelessness; covid vaccines; cancer care; Medicaid funding; food safety; measles; tobacco; and more.