5 Things To Know As California Starts Screening Children For Toxic Stress
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). Starting this year, routine pediatric visits for millions of California children could involve questions about touchy family topics, such as divorce, unstable housing or a parent who struggles with alcoholism. California now will pay doctors to screen patients for traumatic events known as adverse […]
Reduce Health Costs By Nurturing The Sickest? A Much-Touted Idea Disappoints
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Homeless Californians Adapt To Camp Sweeps And ‘The Caltrans Shuffle’
Every other week, Norm Ciha and his homeless neighbors temporarily relocate their camp from land alongside a freeway off-ramp in Oakland, Calif., to a nearby vacant lot, until state cleanup crews have come and gone. They call it “the Caltrans Shuffle.” (Anna Maria Barry-Jester/KHN) This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished […]
Smokers Need Not Apply: Fairness Of No-Nicotine Hiring Policies Questioned
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Californianos sin hogar se adaptan a redadas en campamentos y a las normas de Caltrans
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No Shield From X-Rays: How Science Is Rethinking Lead Aprons
This story also ran on The New York Times. This story can be republished for free (details). CHICAGO — Patients have come to expect a technician to drape their torsos with a heavy lead apron when they get an X-ray, but new thinking among radiologists and medical physicists is upending the decades-old practice of shielding […]
Sin protección contra los rayos X: cómo la ciencia está repensando los chalecos de plomo
SOBRE NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL Noticias en español es una sección de KFF Health News que contiene traducciones de artículos de gran interés para la comunidad hispanohablante, y contenido original enfocado en la población hispana que vive en los Estados Unidos. Chicago. – Los pacientes esperan que un técnico cubra sus torsos con un pesado Use […]
Employers’ Dream Of Controlling Health Costs Turns To Workers’ Sleep
This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished for free (details). Charlie Blakey had a sense he was sleeping poorly since he often would wake up tired and hear from his wife how loudly he breathed during the night. So he jumped at the chance when his employer, Southern Co., an […]
For 2020, California Goes Big On Health Care
Use Our Content This story can be republished for free (details). California is known for progressive everything, including its health care policies, and, just a few weeks into 2020, state leaders aren’t disappointing. The politicians’ health care bills and budget initiatives are heavy on ideas and dollars — and on opposition from powerful industries. They […]
En 2020, California planea a lo grande en atención médica
SOBRE NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL Noticias en español es una sección de KFF Health News que contiene traducciones de artículos de gran interés para la comunidad hispanohablante, y contenido original enfocado en la población hispana que vive en los Estados Unidos. Use Nuestro Contenido Este contenido puede usarse de manera gratuita (detalles). California es conocida por […]