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California Healthline is a complimentary daily news source that provides updates on health care topics, insights, and original articles, catering to the needs of busy health care professionals, decision-makers, media outlets, and the general public. This publication is produced independently by Kaiser Health News (KHN) for the California Health Care Foundation. It reflects the Foundation's dedication to addressing significant issues related to health care policy, delivery, and funding within California. KHN is a nonprofit news organization focused on comprehensive reporting about health care policy, politics, and business. It covers the functioning and challenges of the health care system, including hospitals, doctors, nurses, insurers, governments, and consumers. KHN oversees the editorial direction of California Healthline and operates as an independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit located in Menlo Park, California.

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Inestabilidad de la planta profesional en los CDC altera proyectos de VIH y desperdicia dinero, dicen investigadores

1 week ago | californiahealthline.org | Amy Maxmen

Decenas de expertos en VIH de los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) recibieron correos electrónicos el miércoles 11 de junio revocando las notificaciones de despido recibidas diez semanas atrás. Sin embargo, el daño a sus proyectos podría ser permanente, y las restricciones continuas a sus investigaciones perjudicarán vidas, dijeron científicos de los CDC que trabajan en el área de VIH a KFF Health News. Lo hicieron de manera anónima por temor a represalias.
In Arizona County That Backed Trump, Conflicted Feelings About Cutting Medicaid

1 month ago | californiahealthline.org | Noam Levey

GLOBE, Ariz. — Like many residents of this copper-mining town in the mountains east of Phoenix, Debbie Cox knows plenty of people on Medicaid. Cox, who is a property manager at a real estate company in Globe, has tenants who rely on the safety-net program. And at the domestic violence shelter where she volunteers as president of the board, Cox said, staff always look to enroll women and their children if they can. But Cox, who is 65, has mixed feelings about Medicaid.
Mental Health and Substance Misuse Treatment Is Increasingly a Video Chat or Phone Call Away - California Healthline

1 month ago | californiahealthline.org

More Californians are getting mental health or substance use disorder treatment online or over the phone than in person, according to a KFF Health News analysis of UCLA’s latest California Health Interview Survey. But the telehealth experience isn’t always positive.
A California Lawmaker Leans Into Her Medical Training in Fight for Health Safety Net

1 month ago | californiahealthline.org | Christine Mai Duc

SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson anticipates that California’s sprawling Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, may need to be dialed back after Gov. Gavin Newsom releases his latest budget, which could reflect a multibillion-dollar deficit.
Cuando los abuelos ya no te reconocen

1 month ago | californiahealthline.org | Paula Span

Ocurrió hace más de una década, pero el momento permanece en su memoria. Sara Stewart conversaba con su madre, Barbara Cole, entonces de 86 años, en el comedor de su casa de Bar Harbor, en Maine. Stewart, abogada tenía en ese momento 59 años y estaba haciendo una de sus largas visitas desde fuera del estado. Dos o tres años antes, Cole había comenzado a mostrar signos preocupantes de demencia, probablemente debido a una serie de pequeños derrames cerebrales.
El Medi-Cal bajo amenaza: a quién cubre y qué se recortaría

2 months ago | californiahealthline.org | Don Thompson

SACRAMENTO, California. — Medi-Cal, el complejo programa de Medicaid de California, con un valor de $174.6 mil millones, ofrece seguro de salud a casi 15 millones de residentes con bajos ingresos y discapacidades. California inscribe al doble de personas que Nueva York y a más del triple que Texas, los dos estados con el mayor número de participantes en Medicaid después de California.
Why Cameras Are Popping Up in Eldercare Facilities

2 months ago | californiahealthline.org | Paula Span

The assisted living facility in Edina, Minnesota, where Jean Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, looked lovely. “But then you start uncovering things,” Peters said. Her mother, Jackie Hourigan, widowed and developing memory problems at 82, too often was still in bed when her children came to see her midmorning. “She wasn’t being toileted, so her pants would be soaked,” said Peters, 69, a retired nurse-practitioner in Bloomington, Minnesota. “They didn’t give her water.
Tácticas migratorias de Trump obstaculizan esfuerzos para evitar una pandemia de gripe aviar, dicen investigadores

2 months ago | californiahealthline.org | Amy Maxmen

Las agresivas tácticas de deportación han aterrorizado a los trabajadores agrícolas, que son el centro de la estrategia nacional contra la gripe aviar, según afirman trabajadores de salud pública. Los trabajadores de las industrias láctea y avícola han representado la mayoría de los casos de gripe aviar en el país, y prevenir y detectar los casos entre ellos es clave para evitar una pandemia.
Families of Transgender Youth No Longer View Colorado as a Haven for Gender-Affirming Care

2 months ago | californiahealthline.org | Rae Ellen Bichell |Oona Zenda

In recent years, states across the Mountain West have passed laws that limit doctors from providing transgender children with certain kinds of gender-affirming care, from prohibitions on surgery to bans on puberty blockers and hormones. Colorado families say their state was a haven for those health services for a long time, but following executive orders from the Trump administration, even hospitals in Colorado limited the care they offer for trans patients under age 19.
Federal Judge Blocks Mandate on Nursing Home Staffing

2 months ago | californiahealthline.org | Tarena Lofton

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