Featured in Category To attract in-home caregivers, California offers paid training — and self-care By Laurie Udesky | Kaiser Health News | December 13, 2022 The state needs to prepare for a workforce shift that will require people to seek help outside their families.
California Are you an optimist? Could you learn to be? Your health may depend on it By Judith Graham | Kaiser Health News | December 13, 2022 Multiple studies show a strong association between higher levels of optimism and healthy aging.
Elections Ballot blockade: California industries rely on referenda to stop laws By Ben Christopher and Jeanne Kuang | CalMatters | December 12, 2022 The fast food and oil industries are only the latest to seek a referendum to stop, or at least delay, a law passed by the state Legislature.
climate change Will California keep up its climate momentum? By Emily Hoeven | CalMatters | December 12, 2022 This week California is the first and only U.S. state to be an official observer at the UN biodiversity convention in Montreal, Canada.
Health Matters How will California handle the youth fentanyl overdose crisis? By Emily Hoeven | CalMatters | December 9, 2022 One analysis found that fentanyl was responsible for 1 in 5 deaths among 15- to 24-year-old Californians in 2021.
Bay Area FDA expands omicron-specific COVID-19 booster vaccine authorization to kids under 5 By Eli Walsh, Bay City News Foundation | December 8, 2022 The updated, “bivalent” boosters target both the initial COVID-19 strain and the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the highly contagious omicron variant.
Bay Area Can trees reduce pollution at schools next to freeways? A Fresno campus tries plantings By Ashleigh Panoo | EdSource | December 2, 2022 Other schools around California may follow if the tree experiment improves air quality.
Health Matters Should older seniors risk major surgery? By Judith Graham | Kaiser Health News | November 28, 2022 An important new study offers much-needed data.
California After election win, California’s AG turns to investigating hospital algorithms for racial bias By Mark Kreidler | Kaiser Health News | November 22, 2022 Rob Bonta has begun an inquiry into hospital software programs that might bake in racial discrimination.
Bay Area Flu, COVID, RSV transmission increasing ‘in every category’ state officials warn By Eli Walsh | Bay City News Foundation | November 18, 2022 For infants and young toddlers, RSV can be more serious than a common cold.