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By Hannah Guzik
- Glimpses of the next revolution in the U.S. health care system.
- Could psychedelics help seniors navigate the aging and dying process?
- California will begin paying home-care aids for overtime in February.
- Cancer patients with Medi-Cal fare worse than others.
- Two million of those with Medi-Cal must go through a complicated process if they want to appeal a decision.
- The smoking rate has declined, but the poor are still at higher risk.
- The stigma of being overweight can cause great psychological harm.
- For many people, obesity is unrelated to their consumption of junk food.
- California public health officials are trying to prevent another measles outbreak.
- Deaths from West Nile Virus are on the rise this year in the state.
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