Registered nurse Bonnie Castillo is the new executive director of the California Nurses Association, a raucous union that has been pushing — loudly — for the adoption of a government-run, single-payer health care system in the Golden State.

Report cites frequent absences from work as evidence that untreated mental health problems can adversely affect the economic well-being of individuals and families — a dynamic that is most prevalent in communities of color.

More than 20,000 Californians were sterilized at state homes and hospitals from 1909 to 1979, most of them women, people with disabilities and immigrants. Now, a state lawmaker wants to provide reparations to the roughly 800 living survivors, many of whom never consented to the procedures or did so under pressure.

Medical schools have long taught about COPD with a textbook that features images of two men, and researchers have detected gender bias in doctors’ diagnoses of the disease. In one well-known study, physicians who were presented with hypothetical patients made the correct diagnosis more often for men than for women.

(Español) Se afirma que “a principios de este mes, los registros personales de salud de 582 mil clientes del Departamento de Servicios del Desarrollo se vieron comprometidos por una violación de datos en la oficina de la agencia en Sacramento”.

(Español) “La ingestión de concentraciones aun mínimas de plomo en el agua puede causar daños permanentes en el desarrollo del cerebro de los niños y contribuye a enfermedades del corazón, a fallas en el hígado y otros problemas de la salud más tarde en la vida”.

Although the Western diet has a lot of problems — too much sodium, sugar, saturated fat and calories, in general — it’s not short on vitamins, said Alice Lichtenstein, a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.