Health care workers want the state to investigate Kaiser Permanente’s mental health services. The National Union of Health Workers says it found Kaiser violates state rules for timely access to mental health care
Calls for the chancellor of UC Davis to resign are growing louder amid the controversy over campus police pepper-spraying peaceful demonstrators. One student’s online petition now has more than 76,000 signers.
Pepper spray is legal for use in most states by anyone over age eighteen who is not a convicted felon. It is frequently being used during Occupy protests nationwide. We’re told it hurts (it look likes it hurts), but what exactly are the health effects? And what’s the best way to treat it?
Health advocates heaved a sign of relief this month over a new report showing that the obesity epidemic may be leveling off. In the past five years, the percentage of overweight and obese kids in California dropped by one percent. Not a screaming success, but a lot better than the gains seen since the 80s … or even in the past decade. The rate of overweight kids in California increased by six percent between 2001 to 2004 alone.
A local researcher has found that veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are twice as likely as other vets to stop taking their medication for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Thirty-eight percent of California children are overweight — a slight decline from about five years ago. But the numbers aren’t dropping in the Bay Area.
California is setting up an insurance exchange as part of the federal health care overhaul. Millions of Californians will be eligible for government subsidies to buy coverage in the online marketplace. The authors of a report out today want to make sure African-Americans, Latinos and other minorities don’t get left out.
Oakland police say both criminal and internal affairs investigators are looking into the injury to Scott Olsen, an Iraq War veteran allegedly hit in the head with a police projectile during last night’s clash between officers and protesters. Olsen is currently listed in critical condition.
Apple founder Steve Jobs died at the age of 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
A new study has found that a banned flame retardant may affect the birth weight of developing fetuses.