Health Care

Health

How shots instead of pills could change California’s homeless crisis

Marisa Kendall

Doctors on the front lines of California’s homelessness and mental health crises are using monthly injections to treat psychosis in their most vulnerable patients.
Health

Governor proposes delaying raises for disability care workers amid budget concerns

Heidi de Marco

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to delay a raise for about 150,000 disability care workers in an effort to cut the state budget deficit.
Health

Supervisors advance mental health care proposal with UCSD health

City News Service

The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously advanced a proposed agreement with UC San Diego Health to provide acute psychiatric care, along with 30 to 45 additional beds, for eligible Medi-Cal patients at the university's East Campus Medical Center.
Economy

California to make $3.3 billion available for mental health, substance use treatment centers

Tran Nguyen

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday the state will make $3.3 billion available by July for counties and private developers to start building more behavior health treatment centers.
Environment

DDT chemicals making way into deep-sea food web, alarming researchers

City News Service

Marine life off the Los Angeles coast may still be impacted by the effects of a long-disused DDT dumping site.
Health

County supervisors OK stockpiling abortion medication in 3-2 vote

City News Service

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors have passed a measure that will allow the county to secure an emergency stockpile of medication-based abortion treatments Misoprostol and Mifepristone.
Health

New California rule aims to limit health care cost increases to 3% annually

Adam Beam

A new rule in California aims to limit health care price increases to just 3% each year. The Health Care Affordability Board approved the rule on Wednesday.
Racial Justice and Social Equity

Proposed California legislation could save 40 Latino babies every year

Katie Hyson

Adding folic acid to cereal reduced neural tube birth defects in the U.S. by more than a third. Now, legislators are proposing it be required in the masa flour used to make corn tortillas.
Health

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to let Arizona doctors provide abortions in California

Sophie Austin

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers are announcing legislation Wednesday aimed at helping Arizonans access abortions after the Arizona Supreme Court allowed a near total-ban to move forward.
Health

San Diego assemblymember proposes solutions to Medi-Cal eligibility burden

Heidi de Marco

Each year, families have to prove Medi-Cal eligibility or risk losing coverage. A San Diego assemblymember wants to take that burden away from families.