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‘I Feel Like I’m In Jail’: Hospital Alarms Torment Patients

By Melissa Bailey November 27, 2019

As alarms proliferate, hospitals in California and across the nation are working to sort through the cacophony that can overwhelm staff and cause them to overlook real signs of harm.

State Broadens Investigation Of Doctors For Issuing Questionable Vaccination Exemptions

By Barbara Feder Ostrov July 2, 2019

The Medical Board of California is investigating at least four doctors for issuing questionable vaccine exemptions for numerous children. The investigations come amid the nation’s worst measles outbreak in more than a quarter-century.

California’s New Transparency Law Reveals Steep Rise In Wholesale Drug Prices

By Barbara Feder Ostrov and Harriet Blair Rowan October 11, 2019

Pharmaceutical companies raised the wholesale cost of their drugs by a median of nearly 26% from 2017 to early 2019, according to California’s first-ever report stemming from a new drug price transparency law. Prices for generic drugs rose nearly 38% during that time.

Starving Seniors: How California’s Aging Are Falling Through The Cracks

By Laura Ungar and Trudy Lieberman September 4, 2019

One in 12 older Californians struggle to find enough food to eat while the federal program intended to help hasn’t kept pace with the graying population. That’s worse than the national average, with particularly high numbers in the San Jose and Riverside areas.

Want To Reduce Suicides? Follow The Data — To Medical Offices, Motels And Even Animal Shelters

By Maureen O’Hagan September 20, 2019

An Oregon epidemiologist is using data to find patterns in suicides, then offering prevention training at the motels where people keep taking their lives, the animal shelter where they give away their pets, the pain clinics where patients struggle. Her model is spreading to Humboldt County, Calif., and elsewhere.

Pharma Sells States On ‘Netflix Model’ To Wipe Out Hep C. But At What Price?

By JoNel Aleccia and Barbara Feder Ostrov and Donna Gordon Blankinship October 25, 2019

Manufacturers of lucrative drugs say they’re offering discounts off the high sticker prices ― but taxpayers footing the big bills might never know what the state is paying or if it’s getting a good deal.

Exemptions Surge As Parents And Doctors Do ‘Hail Mary’ Around Vaccine Laws

By Barbara Feder Ostrov April 4, 2019

In California, medical exemptions to skip childhood vaccinations are on the rise. The trend underlines how hard it is to get parents to comply with vaccination laws meant to protect public safety when a small but adamant population of families and physicians seems determined to resist.

Más exenciones a medida que padres y doctores burlan las leyes de vacunación

By Barbara Feder Ostrov April 5, 2019

El número de niños de California que recibieron exenciones médicas de las vacunas se ha triplicado en los últimos dos años. Y muchos médicos autorizan estas exenciones.

With ACA’s Future In Peril, California Reins In Rising Health Insurance Premiums

By Barbara Feder Ostrov and Ana B. Ibarra July 9, 2019

Premiums will grow by an average of 0.8% next year on the state health insurance exchange. Officials cite two new policies for the relatively low rate hike: a new state tax penalty on Californians who don’t have health insurance coupled with state-based tax credits to help enrollees afford their premiums, including middle-income people who make too much money to qualify for federal financial aid.

More States Say Doctors Must Offer Overdose Reversal Drug Along With Opioids

By Barbara Feder Ostrov February 21, 2019

In an emerging new tactic against the rising toll of opioid deaths, California, Ohio, Virginia and Arizona are among the states requiring physicians to offer patients naloxone when they give them prescriptions for the powerful painkillers. The Food and Drug Administration is weighing a national recommendation to do so.

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