Schools weren’t necessarily providing all of the information girls felt they needed. Roxanna Sanchez, a junior at Greenfield High School at the time, worked on the original report, and recalls a real need for more health information there. Budget cuts had eliminated health classes at local high schools and teen pregnancies were high in Greenfield.
For families who moved out of high-poverty neighborhoods, boys experienced an increase and girls a decrease in rates of depression and conduct disorder, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
About 9,000 Medi-Cal applications from newly eligible Sonoma County residents have not been processed yet, due to the deluge of applications under Obamacare, said Joy Thomas, communications and outreach manager for the Sonoma County Human Services Department.
Unlike many specialists in Northern California, neurosurgeon Jeff Lobosky accepts Medi-Cal, California’s insurance program for the poor.
Spanish language media companies joined together on Thursday to host a town hall meeting with President Barack Obama at the Newseum in Washington, DC, aimed at getting millions of uninsured Latinos to sign up for the Affordable Care Act (ACA.) The town hall, “Tu Salud y La Nueva Ley: Conversación con el Presidente (“Your Health and the New Law: A Conversation with the President”) addressed issues and concerns that have been seen as barriers to health insurance enrollment for the Latino community.
In many ways, Jude Ehrlich is the face of federal health reform on the northern California coast. The good face, anyway. The 44-year-old McKinleyville man never used to have much trouble getting health insurance. He had employee-offered plans until 2000, when he started his own small business and purchased his own policy, which helped cover his treatments for psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, migraines and other health problems.
A new study by researchers at UCLA finds that cigarette cravings and dependence may cause structural changes in the brains of young smokers, including those who have only been smoking for a short time. The neurological changes may help explain why people who begin smoking at a young age can become addicted to cigarettes.
This is it. We’re in the last month of open enrollment for coverage through Obamacare this year. In the coming weeks, we’ll finally begin to get a more complete picture of the largest attempt at health-care reform in U.S. history.
When one young mother delivered her daughter via C-section at Natividad Medical Center in 2006, her physician discovered moderate-size fibroid tumors in her uterus and advised her to have them removed. But Onix Herrera, a working mother with no health insurance, couldn’t afford the $3,000 down payment required for what is considered an elective surgery. Instead she lived for four years as the tumors grew.
Studies show that health care costs have been rising more slowly than at any time in the last fifty years, but the American people think they are rising faster than ever. Who’s right, the experts or the public? They both are, they just look at the problem from different perspectives.