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California’s ERs Treat Large Number of Opioid Cases Involving Seniors
California had the nation’s second-highest rate of patients over 65 seeking care at hospital emergency departments for opioid-related issues, such as falls or other accidents caused by the loss of fine...
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Environmentalists, Teachers Oppose Proposed State Pesticide Regulations
An estimated 500,000 school-age children and kids attending daycare facilities are exposed to a variety of chemical pesticides used to protect California’s valuable croplands – a sector of the state...
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Sextortion, a Newer Social Media Threat, is Difficult to Track
According to Terry Evans, a cybersecurity consultant with a background in law enforcement, many victims blame themselves. “Sextortion cases are underreported because victims are often ashamed to come...
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How the Affordable Care Act Has Helped Seniors in Chinatown
Huo Qian Tan, right, sitting with a staff member in the waiting room of the medical clinic of the Chinatown Service Center. The 66 year old, who lives in Chinatown, said, “I am really happy to see a...
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Mexican Consulate Connects Citizens in U.S. to Free Health Care
A clinic lab technician draws blood for anemia and glucose level tests. The Mexican consulate organizes mobile pop-ups where attendees can seek documents proving their Mexican citizenship in addition...
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Bill Proposes Caps on How Long Mentally Incompetent Youth Spend in Juvenile Hall
Photo: Thinkstock. By Jeff Mitchell A Central Coast state lawmaker says that youth with mental illnesses detained in juvenile hall can languish interminably without proper care or attention. That’s why...
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A Lifeline for Spanish-Speaking Caregivers, Who Often Have Nowhere to Turn
Lisa Nagy (left) and Connie De La Rosa sit at a table inside the Family Caregiver Resource Center in Santa Paula. Nagy runs the Older Adult Services and Intervention System, a county-wide program that...
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Tech Entrepreneur Brings Coding to Teens in South Central L.A.
TXT is one of many nonprofit initiatives focused on immersing underserved youths in the kind of coding and robotics camps that affluent communities take for granted. Other groups include Black Girls...
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A Mother Lost Her Son to an Overdose, and Went on a Mission to Flood Orange...
Aimee Dunkle holds a picture of her son, Ben, who died of a heroin overdose at 20 years old. Dunkle regularly hands out kits of the opioid overdose-blocking drug Naloxone in the hopes of preventing...
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Pesticide Continues to Put Farmworkers and Fetuses in Harm’s Way
Farmworker Maria Castro stands outside the United Farm Workers office in Delano, Calif. By Alyssa Morones Maria Castro * has worked in Kern County’s fields for 14 years, since her family moved to...
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Health Net Fined $200,000 Over Gaps in Health Care for Transgender Policyholders
California is just one of six states mandating insurers pay for gender reassignment surgery and related care. That message came from the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) in the form...
View ArticleCalifornia’s ERs Treat Large Number of Opioid Cases Involving Seniors
Originally prescribed opioids for foot pain, 67-year-old veteran nurse George Ates eventually found himself on a fentanyl patch that would swiftly kill someone who hadn’t built up a high tolerance to...
View ArticleA Mother Lost Her Son to an Overdose, and Went on a Mission to Flood Orange...
Every Saturday afternoon, Aimee Dunkle stands behind Santa Ana’s City Hall with a framed picture of her son, Ben, as she hands out brown paper bags filled with kits of the opioid overdose-blocking drug...
View ArticlePesticide Continues to Put Farmworkers and Fetuses in Harm’s Way
Maria Castro has worked in Kern County’s fields for 14 years, since her family moved to Delano from Mexico when she was 16 years old. She started working as a grape harvester two days after her...
View ArticleHealth Net Fined $200,000 Over Gaps in Health Care for Transgender Policyholders
The California Department of Managed Health Care has sent an unequivocal message to the health insurers it regulates: paying for the health care of transgender policy holders is mandatory. That message...
View ArticleFor Those With Endometriosis, Lack of Access to Surgical Option Compounds the...
At age 16, Paige Gibbons of Palo Alto, California, first began having the excruciating symptoms caused by endometriosis. “I’ve had dysmenorrhea or painful periods,” she said. “I was blacking out,...
View ArticleCalifornia Considers Requiring Middle and High School to Start Later, In...
Many California teens who come from low-income and immigrant families have a difficult time getting a full night’s rest because of their obligations outside school. A new bill headed to the California...
View ArticleLGBTQ Teens Face Increased Stress and Anxiety Under Trump
Since the presidential election in November, LGBTQ teens in a Concord-based group have voiced their anger and concerns about the Trump administration, and their fears that the president reverse...
View ArticleProposed Ban on Flavored Tobacco in San Francisco Expected on Ballot Next Summer
A new regulation that had been signed into law called for a ban, effective April 2018, on sales of flavored tobacco including menthol cigarettes, flavored liquid for e-cigarettes and flavored chewing...
View ArticleHealth Plans for Over 2 Million Californians Don’t Follow Consumer Protection...
Every morning, Tracey Watts checked her body for blood. The recent PhD has a rare condition that causes her to have leaky blood vessels. She bled out of pinprick-size spots on her lower body and legs...
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