California More college campuses leveraging the outdoors to support student mental health By Noah Lyons | EdSource | September 22, 2023 Mental health practitioners say a dose of sunlight-derived vitamin D can help students dealing with stress, mental health issues.
Bay Area Wildfire smoke sparks air quality advisory, PUSD sports cancelled By Bay City News and Exedra Staff | September 19, 2023 Hazy skies forecast to continue through Wednesday.
health With uptick in patients, these California Planned Parenthood employees want to unionize By Shreya Agrawal | CalMatters | September 19, 2023 Several Southern California clinics estimate 10 percent of their patients travel from states that now restrict reproductive healthcare.
health A $25 minimum wage is in sight for California health care workers under new legislative deal By Ana B. Ibarra | CalMatters | September 12, 2023 How soon these employees may see the $25 hourly wage floor depends on where they work.
California ‘Dr. Google’ Meets Its Match: Dr. ChatGPT By Andrew Leonard | KFF Health News | September 12, 2023 Researchers say AI bots results can be accurate but urge caution in the absence of any regulations.
California Heat-related deaths are up, and not just because it’s getting hotter By Phillip Reese | Kaiser Health News | September 8, 2023 Only once in the last 20 years — the heat wave of 2006 — has the death rate been higher than it was in 2022.
Bay Area 570 California schools targeted for low vaccination rates By Diana Lambert, Daniel J. Willis, and Yuxuan Xie | EdSource | September 7, 2023 More than half of Oakland Unified’s 48 elementary schools and eight of its schools serving seventh graders are on the audit list for 2022-23.
California Ending the suspense: Child trafficking, fentanyl bills can still become law By Alexei Koseff and Sameea Kamaal | CalMatters | September 1, 2023 In rapid-fire votes in suspense file hearings, lawmakers determined the fate of hundreds of bills on crime, transgender students and more.
city Tracking COVID in Piedmont | Aug. 29 By Exedra Staff | August 29, 2023 CDC says updated booster shot coming in mid-September is worth the wait.
California Californians headed to HBCUs in the South prepare for college under abortion bans By April Dembosky KQED/KFF Health News | August 29, 2023 Many historically Black colleges are in states where abortion is banned. Recent high school graduates are preparing to safeguard their reproductive health during college.