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Premiums for Covered California insurance will go up in 2025

Premiums for health insurance sold through the state’s marketplace will increase by nearly 8% in 2025, Covered California officials announced Wednesday. That’s a smaller …

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The CDC issues a warning after at least 2 deaths in a listeria …

At least two people have died and dozens more have been hospitalized in connection with a listeria outbreak linked to meat sold at U.S. deli counters, the Centers for …

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Los Angeles County Launches Ambitious Plan to Tackle Medical

KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation. Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous county, is spearheading a …

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Doulas Are Now Covered By Medi-Cal. And Riverside County Is

Support for doulas. Now Inland Empire Health Plan is working to transition the doulas who participated in the pilot program and others in the region into California’s …

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Why A Plan To Open Medi-Cal To All 26-49 Year Olds Would Be

According to a state budget summary, the proposal would include $819.3 million for the ages 26-49 expansion in 2023-24; it would cost $2.7 billion annually at full …

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Should You Eat Your Placenta

Ingesting the placenta after birth is a long-running trend because the organ is so nutrient dense. According to Mayo Clinic, the most common way to do this is through …

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Mental Health Clubhouse

Topline: The nonprofit Fountain House is working to bring a 'clubhouse' to L.A. These spaces for people living with serious mental illness are meant to foster growth, …

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Measure HLA: Who's Backing The 'Health Streets LA' Measure On …

M easure HLA, also referred to as Healthy Streets L.A., asks voters in the City of Los Angeles to require the city to — over time — redesign streets to be safer for pedestrians …

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LA County increased access to an opioid antidote 500% in 3

Naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan — is more available than ever. This week, the county announced a 4% decrease last year in the number of fatalities from drug …

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Prop. 1 — Gavin Newsom’s Mental Health Plan

Proposition 1 is a two-part ballot initiative. It includes a bond to build treatment facilities and permanent supportive housing for people with mental health and addiction …

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California Issues Emergency Rule To Address Silicosis Epidemic

California Issues Emergency Rule To Address Silicosis Epidemic. By Jim Morris and Leslie Berestein Rojas. Published Dec 14, 2023 4:32 PM. Gustavo Reyes Gonzales, 32, …

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Big Changes To Come In 2024 For Some California Health Laws

Rollout Of Health Worker Raises Expected In 2024. How soon workers reach that level of pay depends on the type of facility in which they work. Most workers will make $25 an …

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LA County Overdose Deaths In 2022 Climb To More Than 3,200

A record 3,220 people died of drug overdoses in Los Angeles County in 2022. That’s a nearly 7% increase from 2021, when 3,010 people died of drug overdoses in the …

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Climate Change Is Hurting Our Mental Health. How ‘Climate

Wael Al-Delaimy is a public health professor at UCSD who's researching how the climate crisis is impacting the mental health of people in the Middle East. (. Courtesy of Wael …

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Residents near Lake Elsinore evacuated as Macy Fire burns

On Thursday afternoon, the Macy Fire broke out west of Lake Elsinore, growing to 145 acres and prompting evacuations as it threatened a number of homes in the area. As of …

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How East L.A. middle school students use gardening to spread

While adolescent mental health issues were increasing prior to the pandemic, in 2022, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy put out a 53-page advisory declaring youth …

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Medical Parole Got Them Out Of State Prison. Now They're In A

The program expanded in 2014 under an order in the landmark prison overcrowding lawsuit. Between 2011 and Sept. 2020, the state granted medical parole to 183 …

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Hearing Over Controversial Nursing Home Mogul's Facilities

The hearing was set to consider whether Solorzano is fit to run the nine nursing homes. The California Department of Public Health's denial letters to Solorzano cite a long list …

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