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The new detox facility will provide services for unhoused San Diego residents struggling with substance use.
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The Biden administration is scrapping plans to offer COVID boosters for people under 50 this summer. Instead officials will push for an earlier release of the next generation boosters in the fall. -
The declaration allows officials to mobilize personnel and cut through red tape to get ahead of a public health crisis reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic that devastated San Francisco in the 1980s. -
Research published today by a team of researchers led by UC San Diego scientists found that health care facilities in underrepresented, rural and hard-hit communities were less likely to administer COVID-19 vaccines during their initial rollout, partially due to not receiving enough doses to meet demand. -
Dr. Dimie Ogoina detected monkeypox in an 11-year-old patient in 2017 and saw many other cases since. He's tried to warn health officials that the virus has changed the way it spreads — to no avail. -
A nationwide supply shortage could fuel further spread, potentially leading to severe complications. -
Health regulators say nearly 800,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine will soon be available for U.S. distribution. -
The California Bridge Behavioral Health Navigator Program awarded $480,000 Wednesday to four local Scripps Health hospitals to support medication-assisted treatment in emergency departments for opioid use and associated mental health conditions. -
After a car wreck, three siblings were transported to the same hospital by ambulances from three separate districts. The sibling with the most minor injuries got the biggest bill. -
Water systems are considered failing if they have high levels of a range of contaminates like nitrate and arsenic that can make people sick. -
Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold.
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