A decades-old effort to prevent and address domestic violence among law enforcement ranks continues in pockets of California. Despite these best efforts, the crime still crops up among the highest-ranking officers.
Month: February 2014
In rural California, traumatic injuries often happen hours away from medical services. Rescuers scramble helicopters or ground ambulances to rush victims of car crashes, major accidents or violence to hospitals outside of the region. Occasionally, those expensive trips to life saving aid are waylaid by weather or traffic.
A study of several technological approaches to help counteract the effects of global warming finds that not all technologies are effective in all climates and all communities.
For years, Chico resident Dorothy Lee had no health insurance. Employed as the office manager of a business that was too small to provide coverage, she earned too much to qualify for Medi-Cal, was too young for Medicare, and couldn’t afford to purchase expensive individual insurance.
Although car crashes among children age 12 and younger fell by 43 percent from 2002-2011, 9,000 children died during that period. The children killed in those crashes were more likely to be Black or Hispanic than white, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.)
Amidst the furor over last year’s failed attempt to ease a shortage of primary-care physicians by letting nurse practitioners operate without direct doctor supervision, a more modest piece of California legislation is quietly taking effect.
About 79 percent of colorectal cancers can be detected by at-home test kits, according to a review of studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine last week. The kits also correctly identify 94 percent of patients who don’t have colorectal cancer.
Twenty-seven-thousand people in the Sacramento area selected health-insurance plans through Covered California in the first three months of the marketplace’s opening, according to numbers released last week.
The San Joaquin Valley’s air quality is better than it has been in decades but it still isn’t clean enough to meet all federal standards.
On a single day in California, nearly 800 requests for emergency shelter went unmet, according to a 2012 domestic violence census. That was far too many left with no place to go for one team of software developers.