By Minerva Perez
A plaque erected in Merced to remember missing and exploited children has drawn the ire of some parents. The blunt language is not something they want to explain to their children, they say.
But child advocates say the discussion does not have to be so difficult, and it can prevent future heartache.
Since the mid-eighties, the pool of traditional foster families has been shrinking. Child welfare agencies started looking to relatives or people connected to the family as guardians as an alternative to foster parents. Today, more than a third of foster kids in California are in kinship care.
By Helen Afrasiabi
Santa Ana lacks the abundant land and monetary muscle of its more affluent neighbors like Irvine, but the city isn’t compromising when it comes to providing a comparable quality of life. With the Santa Ana River Trail project — one of the city’s transformation efforts — city staff capitalize on creativity and resources to give Santa Ana the livability enjoyed by those master-planned communities bordering it.
Seriously ill patients treated in higher-spending hospitals in Ontario, Canada had lower death rates, fewer hospital re-admissions, and fewer repeat heart attacks, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Nearly 12,000 caregivers across California will feel the effects of Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to cut state aid to caregiver resource centers.
The American diet, heavy in protein but light in fish, lean meats, legumes and whole grains, has long been faulted by experts for our expanding waistlines and increasing rates of preventable disease. A study released today is further confirmation of the health risks of one element of that diet – red meat.
More than half a century after a partial nuclear meltdown near Los Angeles, a federal study has found ground radiation levels nearly 1,000 times higher than agreed-upon standards for mandatory cleanup.
The Brown Administration is bungling its planned transition to a less expensive way to care for older adults and disabled people trying to stay out of nursing homes, leaving thousands of vulnerable people at risk of being forced into institutions, critics say.
By Todd R. Brown
Food distribution remains dominated by quantity-driven corporations, and some small farmers in the Central Valley struggle with a food system controlled by a few distributors and dominated by larger-scale producers who are jumping on the green bandwagon for a piece of the $30 billion industry.
It’s no secret that low-income people and minorities struggle more with obesity. But new research suggests that health advocates and policymakers may have fundamentally misunderstood the reasons why.