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• A Proposal To Make It Harder For Kids To Skip Vaccines Gives Powerful Voices Pause

  June 12, 2019

  As California lawmakers attempt to tighten the rules on childhood vaccinations, they’re getting pushback from unexpected quarters:...

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• Drug Users Armed With Naloxone Double As Medics On Streets Of San Francisco

  June 11, 2019

  In 2018, San Francisco paramedics administered naloxone to 1,647 people, up from 980 two years earlier, according to numbers from the city’s...

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• How Measles Detectives Work To Contain An Outbreak

  June 10, 2019

  On any given day, more than 4,000 people pass through the library at California State University-Los Angeles. On April 11, one of them had measles....

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• Churches Wipe Out Millions In Medical Debt For Others

  June 06, 2019

  Churches in California, Maryland, Illinois, Virginia, Texas and elsewhere have been reaching the same conclusion. RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit...

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• Legal Promise Of Equal Mental Health Treatment Often Falls Short

  June 06, 2019

  The 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act required large group health plans that provide benefits for mental health to put that...

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• Keeping Kids Healthy And Sane In A Digital World

  June 05, 2019

  “Nobody should spend eight or nine hours doing anything except sleeping and working,” says Dr. Sina Safahieh, medical director of...

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• A Final Comfort: ‘Palliative Transport’ Brings Dying Children Home

  May 30, 2019

  At Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., palliative transport has helped culturally diverse families carry out end-of-life wishes for their dying...

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• Lawmakers Push To Stop Surprise ER Billing

  May 28, 2019

  California has some of the nation’s strongest protections against surprise medical bills. But many Californians still get slammed with huge...

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• Hungry Californians Finally To Get A Little More Help

  May 24, 2019

  California is the last state to make federal food aid available to SSI beneficiaries. “It’s long overdue,” said Kim McCoy Wade,...

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• Use Of Buprenorphine To Treat Opioid Addiction Proliferates In California

  May 23, 2019

  The rate of Medi-Cal enrollees who received buprenorphine nearly quadrupled from the end of 2014 to the third quarter of 2018, according to data...

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