California Hospitals And Nursing Homes Brace For Wildfire Blackouts
California has seen a relatively slow start to this year’s wildfire season, but Wanda Chaney still frets every time it’s hot and windy in Chico, a college town about two hours north of Sacramento....
View ArticleCalifornia’s New Transparency Law Reveals Steep Rise In Wholesale Drug Prices
Drugmakers fought hard against California’s groundbreaking drug price transparency law, passed in 2017. Now, state health officials have released their first report on the price hikes those drug...
View ArticlePharma Sells States On ‘Netflix Model’ To Wipe Out Hep C. But At What Price?
When a long, black bus bearing the logo of drugmaker AbbVie rolls through Washington state next year, it will promote a new effort to eradicate hepatitis C infections. The state is paying for the...
View ArticleNursing Home Safety Violations Put Residents At Risk, Report Finds
As huge swaths of California burned last fall, federal health officials descended on 20 California nursing homes to determine whether they were prepared to protect their vulnerable residents from...
View ArticleValley Fever Cases Climb In California’s Central Valley — And Beyond
Valley fever cases are on the rise in California and across the arid Southwest, and scientists point to climate change and population shifts as possible reasons. California public health officials...
View Article5 Things To Know As California Starts Screening Children For Toxic Stress
Starting this year, routine pediatric visits for millions of California children could involve questions about touchy family topics, such as divorce, unstable housing or a parent who struggles with...
View ArticleCalifornia: 5 cosas que hay que saber sobre la evaluación a niños por estrés...
A partir de este año, las visitas pediátricas de rutina para millones de niños de California podrían incluir preguntas sobre temas familiares delicados, como el divorcio, la inestabilidad de la...
View ArticleIn Face Of Coronavirus, Many Hospitals Cancel On-Site Training For Nursing...
Yet another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic may be the clinical training that’s so essential for America’s future nurses and doctors. As university campuses close and disease prevention efforts...
View ArticleWith Medical Safety Gear Scarce, People Are Stepping Up. Here’s Help On Ways...
Increasingly desperate pleas from health care workers and public authorities for donations of face masks and other protective gear are an unsettling sign of just how unprepared American hospitals are...
View ArticleHospital Executive Charged In $1.4B Rural Hospital Billing Scheme
A Miami entrepreneur who led a rural hospital empire was charged in an indictment unsealed Monday in what federal prosecutors called a $1.4 billion fraudulent lab-billing scheme. In the indictment,...
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