Tag: health care
Letters: Good hires | Two-tier health care | Intractable foes
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Cities making payoutsin lieu of good hiresRe: “Family reaches $7.5M...
Letters: Regional plan | Wrong message | Women’s health | Poor...
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Regional plan couldbring discipline to VTARe: “Bay Area bailout of...
High price of popular diabetes drugs deprives low-income people of effective...
By Renuka Rayasam, KFF Health NewsFor the past year and a half, Tandra Cooper Harris and her husband, Marcus, who both have diabetes, have...
Louisiana legislature classifies abortion pill as controlled substance
By Sara Cline | Associated PressBATON ROUGE, La. — Two abortion-inducing drugs could soon be reclassified as controlled and dangerous substances in Louisiana under...
S.F. public hospital and community clinic RNs authorize strike
Bay City NewsSan Francisco Department of Public Health registered nurses voted last week to authorize their contract negotiations team to call a strike, passing...
A mother’s loss launches a global effort to fight antibiotic resistance
By Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES — In November 2017, days after her daughter Mallory Smith died from a drug-resistant infection at the...
Teen who ate spicy chip died of high chile consumption and...
BOSTON — A Massachusetts teen who participated in a spicy tortilla chip challenge on social media died from eating a large quantity of chile...
Here are the ultraprocessed foods you most need to avoid, according...
By Madeline Holcombe | CNN
Eating ultraprocessed foods is associated with an early risk of death, according to a 30-year study — but different foods...
Many states are eager to extend Medicaid to people soon to...
Nada Hassanein | (TNS) Stateline.orgA new policy that allows states to provide Medicaid health care coverage to incarcerated people at least a month prior...
Musical month of May in downtown Campbell
Mother’s Day concert
After 25 years as the lead vocalist for Santana, Tony Lindsay has garnered 11 Grammys, traveled on numerous world tours and recorded...