Health
California Healthcare for All Initiative Gets a Boost
Eight years after President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) came into effect, California continues to defend the state insurance marketplace created by that law, called Covered California.
Staying Alive: How To Fight An Opioid Addiction
More than 42,200 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2016, victims of a crisis that’s being fueled by the rise of a powerful synthetic opioid called fentanyl, which is 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin.
(Español) Día de César Chávez y jóvenes LGBT, la lucha por los distintos derechos civiles
(Español) Alexis dice que cuando se trata de jóvenes que son suicidas, que están lidiando con su identidad LGBTQ, lo que se necita hacer, hablar de este tema más abiertamente.
(Español) ¿Salud universal para todos? Avanza lentamente un nuevo plan en California
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New Push for Universal Health Care.
THURSDAY, MARCH 29 PROGRAM # 8296 12:00 PM PT New Push for Universal Health Care. A coalition of community groups and leading legislators announced a new push for universal health care in California and lawmakers are crafting a package of twenty bills. Meantime, the legislature has not moved forward on pending proposals to overhaul the […]
Changing The Way We Look At Dementia
“It’s about increasing awareness and empathy so that if you encounter someone in the community who needs some help, you have some basic skills,” said Meredith Hanley, project lead for Dementia Friends USA.
Fixing the Parks. Also, Omnibus Bill Passes Without Dream Act.
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 PROGRAM # 8291 12:00 PM PT Fixing the Parks. Green spaces and parks are known to help reduce health costs and combat asthma and diabetes. Still, only one third of people in the US can walk to a park within ten minutes. In Fresno, capital of the worst air pollution in the […]
(Español) Todo lo que debes saber sobre la nueva tarjeta de Medicare… ¡para evitar fraudes!
For years, phone scammers have preyed on older adults by requesting their Medicare numbers, giving various reasons for doing so. People who fall for these ruses have found bank accounts emptied.
As Surgery Centers Boom, Patients Are Paying With Their Lives
(Español) Dijo que los centros quirúrgicos que realizan trabajos delicados cerca de la médula espinal, la tráquea y el esófago en un procedimiento en el mismo día que le causaban “repugnancia”. Pero están ganando tanto dinero, “a manos llenas”, que los posibles peligros están siendo ignorados.
Rhymes Of Their Times: Young Poets Riff On Type 2
(Español) En la última década las tasas de diabetes tipo 2 se triplicaron en los nativoamericanos, se duplicaron en los afroamericanos y aumentaron hasta en 50% en las poblaciones asiáticas, de las islas del Pacífico e los hispanos, según el Centros de Control y Prevención de Enfermedades, CDC.