Latest California Healthline Stories
Daily Edition for Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Thousands Evacuate As Fire Tears Through Southern California: Gregg Champion was trying to reach his Pacific Palisades business Tuesday when he was met with flames so intense he could feel their heat and smoke so dense he struggled to breathe. Champion, 56, was about 100 yards away from the door of his business, the drug treatment and addiction center Start-Up Recovery on Paseo Miramar, when personnel battling the Palisades fire stopped him. “If you go any further, you will die,” a firefighter told him. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, January 7, 2025
3 Sickened After Eating Death Cap Mushrooms: Three Monterey County residents were hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms allegedly purchased from an unlicensed vendor operating out of a van in a supermarket parking lot in East Salinas. Health officials are concerned the vendor may be selling mushrooms at multiple locations. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle and Salinas Californian.
Daily Edition for Monday, January 6, 2025
Independent Pharmacy Will Open Jan. 13 In Santa Rosa: A new, independently owned pharmacy, Santa Rosa Pharmacy, is coming to the downtown area, aimed at filling the need not just for prescriptions but also for personalized community care. Previously, Tuttle’s Pharmacy served the area for nearly eight decades before selling its two locations to Rite Aid in early 2024. Read more from The Press Democrat.
Daily Edition for Friday, January 3, 2025
Ultra-processed foods, alcohol cancer risks, bird flu, the housing crisis, Tricare, psychedelics, weight loss drugs, and more.
Daily Edition for Thursday, January 2, 2025
Drug Overdose Deaths Plummet In 2024: After surging during the covid pandemic into a crushing public health emergency, San Francisco recorded 586 fatal overdoses in the first 11 months of 2024. That represents a nearly 23% decrease, or 174 fewer deaths, compared with the first 11 months of 2023. In total, 810 people died from drug overdoses in 2023, the highest number in city records. Read more from the Los Angeles Times.
Daily Edition for Friday, December 20, 2024
Bird flu outbreak, raw milk recall, mental health, shutdown countdown, vaccines, health cost transparency, and more.
Daily Edition for Thursday, December 19, 2024
State Of Emergency Issued Over Bird Flu: Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Wednesday as the H5N1 bird flu virus moved from the Central Valley to Southern California dairy herds. The declaration will allow for a more streamlined approach among state and local agencies to tackle the virus. Read more from the Los Angeles Times, LAist, and The Orange County Register.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Sutter Health Announces $800M Plan For Medical Campuses: Sutter Health has unveiled plans to transform several empty office buildings in Santa Clara into two huge medical campuses that would create a health care destination in Silicon Valley. Read more from Bay Area News Group.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, December 17, 2024
LA County Launches Medical Debt Relief Program: Millions of dollars of medical debt could be erased within the next several months for some residents in LA County, thanks to a new program. Unlike previous debt relief programs, Angelenos are unable to apply directly. Read more from NBC 4 Los Angeles, CBS Los Angeles, and LAist.
Daily Edition for Monday, December 16, 2024
2 More Californians Have Bird Flu: Two human cases of H5N1 avian flu have been confirmed in San Joaquin County, health officials reported Friday. The cases occurred in farmworkers with known exposure to infected animals. There are now 34 confirmed human cases in California. Read more from The Sacramento Bee. Scroll down for more bird flu news.