Life may have improved in places like Monterey County for transgender people, but there’s still a long way to go – from fighting discrimination in jobs and housing, to making inroads in health care.
Month: February 2013
Here in California, when it comes to protecting people from secondhand smoke, we’ve reached what some are calling the final frontier – laws restricting smoking in apartments, condos, and other multi-unit housing. But as more and more California cities and counties move forward with smoke-free housing laws, another major public health concern often gets lost in the shuffle: how to make sure these new laws don’t put low-income residents at risk of losing their homes.
Monterey County wants to revolutionize health care for one of the most difficult to reach groups, the mentally ill. Its new program will create one-stop health care shopping for people whose main interaction with doctors is through the county’s behavioral health centers.
California’s notorious tax-revenue roller coaster is on the way up again. How many times do we need to see this movie before we remember how it ends? The state needs to find a way to set aside unexpected windfalls as a buffer for the inevitable bad times that always follow. Daniel Weintraub’s weekly essay.
The Rev. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray sits in the small conference room of the center that bears his name. He is both humbled and amazed by the fact of the eponymous Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, part of the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion & Civic Culture.
Lilia Marin-Alvarez, the human resources director for the To Help Everyone Clinic in Los Angeles, would like to hire a new physician. Yesterday.
Obamacare does away with the lifetime limit on most – but not all- health insurance plans. And through a quirk in the law, the student plan at University of California campuses is one of those few plans not required to eliminate the lifetime limit.
A new study of cancer rates among African Americans has good news and bad news about the second leading cause of death for all Americans.
Children living in poverty in California and elsewhere in the U.S. are much more likely to suffer from asthma than their wealthier peers. A new study suggests that a symbiotic relationship between pollution and allergens common in low-income urban areas makes children more vulnerable to the chronic illness.
There are 10 million potential donors registered in the United States for the 10,000 patients who annually are in need of a marrow transplant, but patients who are part of an ethnic minority have a harder time than others finding a donor.