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New RX for Kids: Get Outside and Move
By Lisa Renner It’s not often that 7-year-old Joseph gets to play in the water, but the wheelchair-bound boy had a great time doing just that on a trip to Crab Cove at Crown Memorial State...
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Shelters, Clinics Work Together to Help Domestic Violence Victims
“So many people won’t walk through our doors because they’re afraid,” says Jesse Torrey, associate director of RISE, an agency that serves victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in San Luis...
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Denti-Cal Program is Failing Children, But Improvements are Underway
Paul Reggiardo, a long-time pediatric dentist in Huntington Beach, sees some patients in the Denti-Cal program, but he said it’s become increasingly difficult financially to treat them, even though...
View ArticleScreening for Depression Helps Pregnant and Postpartum Women
By Hannah Guzik Screening all women for depression during and after pregnancy can significantly help mothers and their babies, two new studies report. A universal screening program at Kaiser Permanente...
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The Curious Case of William Jay: Aging, Technology, and Preventive Health
By Matt Perry Preventive health defined: stop trouble before it happens. It saves time, money and lives. It’s the clarion call for today’s healthcare system. The intersection of technology...
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In this district, a third of the kids are homeless
By Marty Graham When the grant that funded Veronica Medina’s job, working with homeless students and their families, stopped coming to San Ysidro schools, she didn’t. “I got up and came to work every...
View ArticleDespite Health Reform, Undocumented Families Still Struggle to Get Care
By Hannah Guzik Undocumented families in California live in fear of deportation, which affects their ability to get health care, a new report highlights. The report, released today by the Greenlining...
View ArticleKeeping to Our Ideals and Providing Coverage to All California Families
By Mayra E. Alvare Robert Kennedy once said, “Our attitude toward immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to...
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Foster care reform faces challenge: finding enough homes
Photo: Thinkstock By Lisa Renner There’s no doubt in Veronica Morales’ mind that placement in a caring foster family is far superior than placement in a group home. The Turlock resident, who spent much...
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In Northern California a “Walk With Friends” Leads to Healthier Living
By Fran Kritz What makes local residents meet up to take a walk together in several Sacramento parks each week? To hear them tell it, it’s the fun that comes from a shared activity with neighbors, and,...
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Medi-Cal Funding Will Support Housing the Chronically Homeless
Photo: Thinkstock. By Lynn Graebner Will Nebbitt suffers from seizures and painful blood clots in his legs that prevent him from walking very far. A former addict, he spent more than 25 of his 59 years...
View ArticleSerious Shortage of Antibiotic for Congenital Syphilis
By Kit Stolz The public health official who oversees efforts to slow the rate of sexually transmitted disease in California, Heidi Bauer, M.D., has sounded an alarm about a serious shortage of the one...
View ArticleCan Doctors Help Reduce Gun Violence?
By Hannah Guzik Doctors can help prevent gun violence by asking their patients whether they own firearms and counseling them on safety, a new report states. A common misperception among physicians is...
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Growing But Not Sustainable? Villages at a Crossroads
By Matt Perry Along Los Angeles’ coastline the affluent Palos Verdes peninsula is heavily populated with older adults. Nearly one in four citizens living there is over 65 — almost twice the state...
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Digital NEST Nurtures High-Tech Skills in Low-Income Youth
Jacob Martinez (left) in the co-working space at the Digital NEST. Photo: Lily Dayton. By Lily Dayton Issac Rodriguez always dreamed of making movies, but the Watsonville High School junior didn’t...
View ArticleDoctors Unclear on California’s New Assisted Death Law, Report Finds
By Hannah Guzik Californians who are terminally ill and have less than six months left to live will be able to ask their doctors to help them die beginning June 9, but many doctors in the state are...
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Nation’s First LGBT Adult Homeless Shelter Opens in San Francisco
Photo: Thinkstock. By Linda Childers Tommi Avicolli Mecca, director of counseling programs at the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, still remembers the day six years ago when a young homeless...
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Statewide Campaign to Reduce Unnecessary C-Sections
Photo: Thinkstock. By Lynn Graebner Women in California with low-risk deliveries having their first babies have between a 12 percent and 70 percent chance of delivering by cesarean section. But where...
View ArticleState Senate Considers a Bill to Limit Soaring Prescription Drug Prices
By Hannah Guzik Pharmaceutical companies can raise the prices of prescription drugs without oversight, leaving some patients suddenly unable to afford their medicine or insurers paying hefty fees to...
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California Schools Scrambling to Comply with New Sex Ed Laws
California middle and high schools have been required to teach students about HIV/AIDS prevention since 1992. What has been optional is comprehensive sexual health education. Photo: Lynn Graebner By...
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