October 18, 2018 | Sammy Caiola
If Proposition 4 passes, $1.5 billion in state bonds would help hospitals make beds seismically compliant, redesign neonatal units and purchase new equipment.
October 15, 2018 | Chris Nichols
Have you seen, heard or read a Prop 8 ad? They’re hard to miss. The proposition dealing with kidney dialysis centers is the most expensive one on the November ballot. So who’s spending the money and why?
October 12, 2018 | Sammy Caiola
Californians will vote in November on Proposition 8, which would regulate dialysis clinic spending. It’s a move that could either improve patient conditions or degrade them, depending on who you ask.
October 9, 2018
A UC Davis doctor is preparing for a four-month sabbatical to the South Pole, where he’ll serve as the primary physician for 150 people.
October 5, 2018 | Sammy Caiola
A team of researchers are mapping California heat waves and self-reported symptoms such as stress, anxiety and depression. They found the correlation is strongest during strings of warm nights.
October 4, 2018
UC Davis Health Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Dr. Dean Blumberg discusses the 2018-2019 season and prevention with the flu shot.
October 2, 2018 | Sammy Caiola
The Department of Health Care Services has made improvements to the Medicaid dental program in recent years, but an independent commission says the changes don’t go far enough.
October 2, 2018 | Sammy Caiola
Residents of live-in veterans facilities in Yountville want the right to use California’s End of Life Option Act while staying in the homes. They filed a lawsuit against the state department of veterans’ affairs Tuesday.
October 1, 2018 | Sammy Caiola
At Sacramento City Unified School District, teachers are being asked to become gatekeepers between kids and cupcakes. Some say they may have a hard time enforcing the new rules in the classroom.
September 25, 2018 | Sammy Caiola
As California wildfire seasons get longer, hotter and more dangerous, hospitals are finding preparing for disasters is crucial.
Health Care NEWSOctober 22, 2018
Despite running against the Affordable Care Act for years, many Republicans are airing ads saying they support a central feature of the law: the requirement that pre-existing conditions be covered.
October 20, 2018
Surgeons in South Africa transplanted part of a liver from an HIV-positive mother to her uninfected daughter — a medical first. Scott Simon talks to Dr. Harriet Etheredge, a medical bioethicist.
October 20, 2018
Health care is a major concern for voters in the upcoming midterm elections. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Rep. John Faso about how he's speaking to his constituents about this important issue.
October 19, 2018
The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is a central issue in Arizona's election for U.S. Senate. But voters' perceptions of the health care law have changed dramatically over the past eight years.
October 19, 2018
Two rules have forced closure of all but one Planned Parenthood center in the state. Abortion-rights supporters say it is an example of an "abortion desert" that could result if Roe is overturned.
February 24, 2017
With the future of Obamacare up in the air, many consumers are wondering if they must comply with the tax requirements related to the law, including whether to pay the penalty for being uninsured.
July 2, 2015
Another in a series of Q&A columns answering consumers’ questions about California’s new medical world.
May 28, 2015
Another in a series of Q&A columns answering consumers’ questions about California’s new medical world.
January 27, 2015
It’s that joyous time of year when W-2s, 1099s and the other forms we need for our taxes start landing in our mailboxes.
January 13, 2015
Emily Bazaar explains yet another Covered California computer glitch that has left an untold number of consumers confused about what kind of coverage, if any, they qualify for.
August 8, 2014
Recent changes in drug pricing mean more of you will face sticker shock when you fill prescriptions.
