March 31, 2016
(AP) — Northern California health officials say two more people have died in the last week after taking street drugs believed to contain a powerful painkiller, raising the total to seven.
March 29, 2016
(AP) -- A charter school in the Sierra Nevada was closed Tuesday after an unvaccinated child was diagnosed with measles.
March 28, 2016
UPDATE March 29 - Sacramento County officials are now reporting 28 cases of opioid-related overdoses in the past few days. Authorities say the overdoses are suspected of causing six deaths.
March 25, 2016
(AP) — The federal jury in a high-stakes patent trial ordered drugmaker Gilead to pay rival Merck $200 million in damages for infringing on patents for hepatitis C drugs.
March 22, 2016 | Ben Bradford
Legislation to limit “surprise medical bills” that failed in the California Assembly last year has new support from a powerful union.
March 22, 2016
YubaNet editor Pascale Fusshoeller joins us to talk about Nevada County residents debating a measure to ban all outdoor marijuana cultivation.
March 22, 2016
UC Davis scientists are looking at ways to treat Huntington's Disease by engineering adult stem cells. Dr. Vicki Wheelock was on Insight to talk about her team's research.
March 21, 2016 | Ben Adler
One year after a debate over vaccinating public school children reverberated through California Legislature, a new proposal would protect doctors from discipline or liability for issuing students medical exemptions.
March 15, 2016 | Ben Adler
The California Legislature has blocked an effort to cap nonresident student enrollment at every UC campus. Meanwhile, smoking and vaping would be banned on public college campuses starting in 2018 under a bill that moved ahead.
March 14, 2016 | Ben Adler
The campaign for a November ballot measure to raise California’s tobacco tax is criticizing reported threats it says came from industry lobbyists. The targets are six anti-tobacco bills passed by the Legislature last week.
