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California Regulators Just Approved New Rule to Cap Health Care …

WebBetween 2015 and 2020, per capita health spending in California grew more than 5% each year, according to federal data. A board appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom …

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A New COVID Vaccine Dose Is Now Available for People Age 65 …

WebThere’s also a practical element to the CDC’s decision to recommend an extra vaccine dose for this age group — because their recommendation means that now …

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What's All This Smoky Air Doing to Your Body

WebTypically above 150 (air quality index, AQI) is considered unhealthy for even normal, healthy people. Above 100 for anybody with respiratory conditions or …

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Breaking the Cycle: How Parental Mental Health Affects Kids

WebThe need to come to terms with how parental mental health influences the mental health of children has come into sharper focus as the United States grapples with …

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Covered California's Enrollment Deadline Now Extended to Feb. 9

WebThe nation’s top health official, United States Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, visited San Francisco on Tuesday to mark these new figures, …

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‘Make a Circle’ Documentary: Struggles of Child Care Providers

WebMake a Circle includes enough of the COVID period to convey the providers’ skinny tightrope while reminding us of the essential workers whose jobs outside the …

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Lesson Plan: Police, Race and Unrest in America’s Cities

WebObjectives. Students analyze, evaluate and compare/contrast the findings of the Kerner Commission of 1967 and the Ferguson Commission of 2015. Students read and primary …

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How to Find COVID Tests, Care and Vaccines in California When

WebThis law only keeps the current situation in place until six months after the end of the federal public health emergency, on Nov. 11. Click here to find a prescription …

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California Disability Workers’ Raises at Risk as Gov. Newsom

WebFamilies of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities say Gov. Gavin Newsom is reneging on a scheduled raise for the workers who care for their loved …

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California Wants to Cap Medical Bills, but the Health Care

WebCalifornia’s proposed target would allow health care prices and spending to increase but slower than in recent years. Between 2015 and 2020, per capita health …

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California's COVID State of Emergency Ends Today. What Does …

WebToday, California’s COVID-19 state of emergency officially comes to an end. Since March 2020, this statewide emergency declaration has given Gov. Gavin Newsom …

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‘Therapy In The Ghetto: Reimagined’ to Raise Mental Health

WebAt its nucleus, Therapy In The Ghetto — both the album and the upcoming exhibit — offers an inclusive space to poetically explore the effects of communal and …

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Nurses Warn Patient Safety at Risk as AI Use Spreads in Health …

WebAt a protest on Monday outside of Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco Medical Center, many in the estimated crowd of about 200 members of the California …

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Maternity Group Care for and by Black People Is Improving

WebBElovedBIRTH Black Centering provides group perinatal and postnatal care for Black people from an all-Black health care team, where they get private checkups …

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Pandemic Highlights Need for Urgent Care Clinics for Women

WebUrgent care OB-GYN clinics have begun popping up around the country in recent years, and the COVID pandemic has increased demand. While no data is …

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Grades Have Huge Impact, But Are They Effective

WebGrades can determine so much of a child’s future – the ability to get into college, qualify for scholarships and lessen student debt, land a higher paying job that …

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Face Masks Are Returning to Hospitals. What's Your Bay Area

WebThe arrival of what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls respiratory disease season has prompted almost all of the nine Bay Area counties …

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Why PE matters for student academics and wellness right now

WebThe full impact of the pandemic on kids’ health and fitness won’t be known for some time. But it’s already caused at least a short-term spike in childhood obesity Rates …

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California and Florida Took Dramatically Divergent Pandemic

WebFrom the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, the governors of California and Florida have taken almost polar opposite approaches to managing an unprecedented …

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Stephanie Rapp: The Final Gift KQED

WebStephanie Rapp. May 1. Save Article. Stephanie Rapp tells us about the final gift her mother was able to receive at the end of her life. My mom died in January just …

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UC’s President had a Plan to De-Escalate Protests. How did a

WebDrake’s safety plan states: “The University will reinforce existing guidelines that minimize police presence at protests, follow de-escalation methods in the event of …

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May Day Rallies Focus on Palestinian Solidarity in San Francisco

WebThe May Day rally during International Worker’s Day in the Mission in San Francisco on May 1, 2024. (Gina Castro/KQED) Many participants who are planning to …

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