March 29, 2019 | Julia Mitric
California currently has 16 confirmed cases of measles from Los Angeles to Butte county. Infants under one year old are among the most vulnerable.
March 28, 2019 | Sammy Caiola
Health advocates are hoping to build a workforce of people living with mental illness to help guide others in need of services toward care. Some people are already doing the work, but a new law would make it a billable service through Medi-Cal.
March 26, 2019
(AP) — California may give state public health officials instead of local doctors the power to decide which children shouldn't be vaccinated before attending school.
March 26, 2019 | Sammy Caiola
Deaths from a powerful synthetic opioid called fentanyl are rising sharply across the U.S. California is taking steps to defy the national trend.
March 26, 2019 | Sammy Caiola
The city of Sacramento is moving slowly to train counselors. Meanwhile, community advocates are working to speed up the process and bring safe spaces to neighborhoods.
March 22, 2019 | Sammy Caiola
While comprehensive care is elusive for the undocumented in all California counties, where a person lives can make all the difference in whether health care is available at all outside of emergency rooms.
March 11, 2019 | Sammy Caiola
Middle-aged men are at the highest risk for suicide, but they’re also the least likely to talk to their doctors about it. UC Davis doctors are designing a video program to encourage male patients to bring the issue up.
March 7, 2019 | Sammy Caiola
A new study out of UC Davis shows the therapeutic benefits of a psychedelic drug called DMT can be separated out from hallucinogenic effects.
March 4, 2019
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and other Democratic lawmakers are trying to overturn the new obstacles set up by the Trump administration for women seeking abortions.
March 1, 2019 | Sammy Caiola
A soon-to-be-published Trump administration policy gives clinics a choice: keep abortion services out of reproductive health care, or forfeit federal funds.
