Hoping to avoid a repeat of last year’s measles outbreak in California, public health officials have launched a campaign reminding doctors to consider the highly contagious virus as a possible diagnosis when patients or parents call or come in with a fever and rash.
By Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser News Cancer patients insured by California’s health plan for low-income people are less likely to get recommended treatment and also have lower survival rates than patients with other types of insurance, according to a new study by University of California-Davis researchers. While other studies have linked Medicaid insurance status to worse cancer outcomes, the UC-Davis study appears to be the
When Gov. Jerry Brown signed the End of Life Option Act last month it was a celebration for many Californians who thought the “assisted dying taboo” would never be breached.
Dorissa McCalister-Carnell, Family Caregiver, “Here’s a picture of my mom and myself. This was on a Sunday morning, now I’m thinking it was an Easter morning. I see the shadow, I think my Dad was taking the picture. And this is us on our way to Greater Faith. And I want to say circa—19—I want to say around ’67 maybe, ’66 or ’67. I was a big kid so it’s hard to tell. I was always tall, so two or three, that’s about right.”
Sometimes the U.S. health care system can seem stuck in the last century: overly centralized, bureaucratic, and definitely not consumer-friendly. But behind the scenes a scientific revolution is taking shape that will likely transform medicine, even if the administrative side of the industry isn’t quite ready for it.
The San Jose Zoo has a program for seniors to help them stay active. Terminally ill patients have to wait until at least April to use California’s new assisted-death law. For low-wage workers, even an affordable health plan can seem out of reach. Those from certain racial groups and who are low-income spend more time finding a doctor. An L.A. clinic will provide free mental
A California statute allowing nursing homes to make medical decisions for residents incapable of doing that for themselves and who have no family or legal representatives has been ruled unconstitutional.Advocates for nursing home residents say the ruling offers long overdue protection for the rights of the elderly. Rights that already exist for prisoners and the
mentally ill.