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• Doctor Alexa Will See You Now: Is Amazon Primed To Come To Your Rescue?

  July 26, 2019

  Amazon has partnered with numerous health care companies, including several in California, to let consumers and employees use Alexa for health care...

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• Child Drowning Rates Drop As Communities Adopt Stricter Building Codes

  July 22, 2019

  The nation as a whole has experienced a similar, though less dramatic, decline, with drowning rates for children age 14 and younger now about...

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• Employers Urged To Find New Ways To Address Workers’ Mental Health

  July 18, 2019

  The American Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities, which includes certain mental health conditions,...

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• Federal Appeals Court Takes Up Case That Could Upend U.S. Health System

  July 09, 2019

  The fate of the Affordable Care Act is again on the line Tuesday, as a federal appeals court in New Orleans takes up a case in which a lower court...

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• CenCal Health Announces New Director of Provider Services

  July 09, 2019

  CenCal Health, the publicly-sponsored health plan for Medi-Cal in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, recently welcomed Terri Howell to the...

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• Medi-Cal Enrollment Among Immigrant Kids Stalls, Then Falls. Is Fear To Blame?

  July 08, 2019

  As California prepares to expand Medicaid coverage to young adults here illegally, the number of undocumented immigrant children in the program is...

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• State Broadens Investigation Of Doctors For Issuing Questionable Vaccination Exemptions

  July 02, 2019

  The California agency that regulates doctors is investigating at least four physicians for issuing questionable medical exemptions to children...

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• State Lawmakers Eye Federal Dollars To Boost Mental Health Counseling By Peers

  June 28, 2019

  The value of peer support is recognized by Medicaid, the health insurance program for people with low incomes, and it funds such services. That...

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• San Francisco Set To Ban Sales Of E-Cigarettes

  June 25, 2019

  San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is slated to vote Tuesday to ban the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes in the city. The city is the...

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• New Budget Boosts Health Coverage For Low-Income Californians

  June 24, 2019

  The Medi-Cal expansions in the budget represent another radical departure by California from the federal government on health care and immigration....

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