Undocumented families in California live in fear of deportation, which affects their ability to get health care, a new report highlights.
Month: May 2016
When the grant that funded Veronica Medina’s job, working with homeless students and their families, stopped coming to San Ysidro schools, she didn’t.
Preventive health defined: stop trouble before it happens. It saves time, money and lives. It’s the clarion call for today’s health care system. The intersection of technology and prevention can offer older adults profound opportunities to take control of many illnesses – especially diabetes.
Screening all women for depression during and after pregnancy can significantly help mothers and their babies, two new studies report.
Families likely aren’t taking advantage of their Denti-Cal benefits because it’s difficult to find a dentist who will accept them. Many dentists want nothing to do with Denti-Cal because it offers low reimbursement rates and comes with onerous administrative rules.
The 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey reported more than one in four women has experienced severe physical violence inflicted by an intimate partner, including being slammed against something, hit with a hard object or beaten. Studies show that many of these women would disclose abuse to health care providers if they were asked—but few are.
It’s not often that 7-year-old Joseph gets to play in the water, but the wheelchair-bound boy had a great time doing just that on a trip to Crab Cove at Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda.
For the first time, the federal office that oversees Medicare has released quality data broken down by ethnic lines, revealing disparities in care by racial group.