Kaiser Permanente and a coalition of unions representing roughly a third of the health care giants workforce have reached a tentative agreement, a week after tens of thousands of workers walked off the job in protest.
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What’s in illegal drugs? A UCLA team takes testing to the streets to find out
The UCLA study is bringing a sophisticated machine traditionally used in laboratories to the streets, road testing a public health strategy that has gained more urgent attention as deadly overdoses have surged.
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These California nurse-midwives want to provide abortions. They’re struggling to get trained
Some Californians received a test of the earthquake early-warning system seven hours before the appointed time, waking…
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Got COVID? Doctors warn powering through it — even from home — can worsen health toll
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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‘They’re not trying to die’: How drug checking aims to protect users in a messy market
Overdoses claimed some 107,000 lives last year in the U.S. Public health advocates, researchers and activists want to help people find out what is in their drugs.
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Are masks still effective even when many aren’t wearing them? What experts say
Many experts stress that face coverings still protect against the coronavirus and that masking up makes sense — even if it’s no longer mandatory.
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If you get the coronavirus, how do you get anti-COVID drugs?
There is no longer a shortage of anti-COVID medications in most locations, California health officials say.
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This treatment can protect vulnerable people from COVID. But many don’t know about it
Evusheld can help protect immunocompromised people from COVID, but patients say scant awareness and a complicated process have hampered its rollout.
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‘I don’t have a life’: Parents struggle to get home nurses for medically fragile kids
California families have long had difficulty getting home nursing care for medically fragile children. The problem has persisted with the arrival of COVID-19.
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California approaches pandemic record for all hospitalizations
Last week, California averaged 52,000 hospital patients daily, just under the 55,000 hospitalized for all reasons during last winter’s COVID-19 surge.