Storing Guns Away From Home Could Reduce Suicides, but Legal Hurdles Loom
Safe storage maps show gun owners where to put their firearms for safekeeping if they experience a mental health crisis. The idea has support among some gun enthusiasts, but legal obstacles threaten wider adoption.
Watch: California and Feds Invest in Health Care for Homeless People
California Healthline senior correspondent Angela Hart discusses big developments in street medicine, both statewide and nationally.
Doubts Abound About a New Alzheimer’s Blood Test
By Judith Graham
Quest Diagnostics is selling a blood test online to consumers. But results may not be reliable or easy to interpret. And it isn’t covered by insurance.
Daily Edition for Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Youth mental health, patient diversion, gene therapy, gun violence, birth control, RSV shot shortage, and more are in the news.
Residents of a Rural Arkansas County Grapple With Endemic Gun Violence
By Renuka Rayasam
Rural gun homicides have often been overshadowed by violence in cities. But they are taking their toll on small communities ill-equipped to deal with the challenges.
Daily Edition for Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Health worker pay, the homelessness crisis, prison mental health, covid, flu vaccine, hospital ratings, TCE, and more are in the news.
Millions of Rural Americans Rely on Private Wells. Few Regularly Test Their Water.
By Tony Leys
More than 43 million Americans drink, bathe, and cook with water from private wells, which can be tainted by farm or industrial runoff, leaky septic systems, or naturally occurring minerals.
California Expands Paid Sick Days and Boosts Health Worker Wages
By Don Thompson
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation expanding paid sick leave to five days, extending bereavement leave to miscarriages and failed adoptions, and approving an eventual $25-an-hour health care minimum wage. Still, in a possible sign of national ambitions, the Democrat vetoed free condoms in schools and refused to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.
Epidemic: What Good Is a Vaccine When There Is No Rice?
What good is a vaccine when there is no rice? Episode 7 of “Eradicating Smallpox” explores the barriers public health workers face in communities where people’s basic needs aren’t being met.
Daily Edition for Monday, October 23, 2023
Finding covid shots for kids, health worker strike, dengue case, hospital staffing, AI, fentanyl, dementia, and more are in the news.
