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Ageism in Silicon Valley
Bob Crum is a former Silicon Valley tech employee who now works with FIRST 5 of Santa Clara County. By Bob Crum Over the past 40 years, the contract between a technology company and its workers has...
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Sobering Center Offers Homeless a Second Chance
Awaiting patients at Los Angeles’ new Dr. David L. Murphy Sobering Center, recovery supervisor Ronald McCray says he knows from personal suffering what addiction can do to a person – and he knows the...
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College Eateries Rolling out Plans to Accept CalFresh
Electronic benefit transfer cards, or EBTs, will be accepted on several CSU campuses. Photo: HSU/Flickr. By Lisa Renner Homeless or disabled college students in eight California counties will soon be...
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San Diego Doctors, Advocates Combine Efforts to End Female Genital Cutting
Habeeba Omar Jama, pictured right, who advocates to end female genital cutting (FGC) in Somalia, had the procedure when she was five years old. According to the World Health Organization, Somalia has...
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LGBT Clinic Opens in Ventura to Fill Gaping Need for Health Care
Phillippa Bisou (above) used to drive close to two hours, from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo, to see a doctor. Knowledgeable doctors are crucial for better health, says Robbie Rodriguez, Equality...
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At San Francisco’s Libraries, Formerly Homeless Staff Support Those Still in...
Since 2009, the library has helped more than 300 people access temporary and permanent housing and has connected close to 1,000 with other services including safe places to sleep and shower as well as...
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Asthma Studies Raise Thorny Questions about Race and Genetics
Research shows that African-Americans don’t respond as well as their white counterparts to some of the most common asthma controller medications, raising questions about how those medications are...
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State Legislators Introduce Bills to Try to Prevent Changes to Women’s Health...
Photo: Thinkstock. By Hannah Guzik In an attempt to shield the state from federal policy changes, California legislators are working on a series of women’s health bills. A bill introduced by Sen. Ed...
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Palliative Care Coming for 7,400 Medi-Cal Patients, But Others Will Be Left Out
The Department of Health Care Services is proposing to offer palliative care to an estimated 7,400 patients with any of four conditions, but this still leaves hundreds, maybe thousands, without...
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Anxiety Grips California Students Amid Immigration Crackdown
“Most of the kids have been watching the news and been listening to what their parents tell them, and I think that’s putting more fear into them,” says school counselor David Braff. Photo: ThinkStock...
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Baja, San Diego Schools Prepare for Deported Students
Photo by Matt Dempsey / CC Share Alike 2.0 By Marty Graham About 2,000 kids from mixed nationality families have stopped coming to San Diego Unified School District schools since January, according to...
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Batterer Interventions May Help the Few Abusers Who Finish the Programs
On average, about half of participants don’t complete batterer intervention programs, according to Jeffrey Edelson, professor of social work at the University of California, Berkeley and an expert in...
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California Advocates React to American Health Care Act
Last week, the American Health Care Act passed the House of Representatives, and health advocates say millions of Californians’ coverage is at risk. Photo: Thinkstock By Lisa Renner Five million of...
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How Children Are Swept Up in California’s Opioid Crisis
Dr. David Sine of Valley Children’s Hospital in Madera believes that many teens in the region have easy access to opioids because it’s so common to find them in a relatives’ medicine cabinet....
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Immigrant Communities Are Prepping Children in Case Parents Don’t Come Home
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego, has been holding prayer services and planning meetings to help families prepare for the difficult decisions that come from...
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Counties to Try Out an Electronic Registry for End-of-Life Wishes
Often times in an emergency, it’s only after reaching the hospital – after trauma may have been inflicted – that paramedics discover whether or not the patient wanted to be resuscitated. Photo:...
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Do No Harm: Why Bail Reform Matters to A Physician
Lello Tesema is a public health researcher and physician in the Los Angeles County Jails, the largest jail system in the country. Photo: Courtesy Lello Tesema. By Lello Tesema The young woman in my...
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Slashing Payments to Planned Parenthood Will Limit Access to Care in Central...
Planned Parenthood is a major provider of reproductive health care to primarily low-income men and women and those who live in underserved communities, says Kathy Kneer, CEO and president of Planned...
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California Offers Child Care Subsidies for Infants and Toddlers, But Only 9%...
Lewis Payne teaches toddlers at the Berkeley YMCA on 10th Street, one of 13 YMCA locations in the Central Bay Area that offer child care for children 2 and younger that can be paid for using government...
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Cuts to Medicaid Could Thwart California’s Plans for Universal Health Care
The Healthy California Act proposes coverage for all medical care, including inpatient and outpatient, emergency care, dental, vision, mental health and nursing home care. By Lisa Renner As...
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