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Deaths of homeless people in Los Angeles County have jumped 76% in the past five years, outpacing the growth of the homeless population, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the coronerās data. Experts say drug and alcohol abuse are significant factors.
Asylum seekers from Mexico and Central America, housed in migrant shelters in the border city of Tijuana, Mexico, are often sick and exhausted from their long journeys. Volunteer health workers from Southern California recently sent a mobile clinic to one of those shelters and spent a day tending to its inhabitants.
Lauren Weber, one of Kaiser Health Newsā new Midwest correspondents, joined St. Louis Public Radio reporter Jeremy Goodwin on āSt. Louis on the Airā Friday to discuss how syphilis is making inroads into rural counties across the Midwest and West.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you donāt have to.
Potentially deadly fatty liver disease, linked to overconsumption of sugar in drinks and food, often starts in childhood. The goal: Get children to change their habits.
Syphilis is spreading from big cities into rural counties across the Midwest and West. One Missouri clinic has seen more than six times as many cases in the first few months of 2019 compared with the same period last year. Communities grappling with budget cuts and crumbling public health infrastructure also lack experience in fighting the disease.
The nationās largest reproductive health services provider is in the midst of a high-stakes effort to showcase what it considers its vital role in providing community health care.
New research published in JAMA detected some changes in healthy behavior like weight and stress, but little overall impact in workersā health status or employer health care spending.
The Adelanto ICE Processing Center houses nearly 2,000 people in California. Federal, state and watchdog reviews say the Florida-based firm that runs the facility fails to provide adequate health care.
Scientists say drought can spur transmission of the disease and that wetter winters since 2015 have helped reduce the number of infections in California. In the long term, however, climate change could mean more drought ā and more infections.
The soda industry spent $11.8 million to influence policy statewide in 2017 and 2018. As politicians once again consider bills that would tax and label sugary drinks, more big money is expected to flow.
What to know about PBMs and rebates ahead of the Senate drug price hearing on ā you guessed it ā PBMs.
The depth of psychological damage after the fire in Paradise, Calif., may depend on how much help residents are getting now.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you donāt have to.
In California, medical exemptions to skip childhood vaccinations are on the rise. The trend underlines how hard it is to get parents to comply with vaccination laws meant to protect public safety when a small but adamant population of families and physicians seems determined to resist.
About 95% of parents in Oregon who skip vaccines opt to use the stateās online education tool to print their own exemption certificates.
The main ingredient in numerous popular herbicides has been implicated by two juries in the cancers of frequent users, but major public health agencies disagree over whether it is a carcinogen. Can you use it safely in your garden? Here are some answers to questions you may have about the weed killer glyphosate.
Homeless patients accounted for about 100,000 visits to California hospitals in 2017, marking a 28% increase from just two years earlier. Health officials attribute the surge to the overall rise in Californiaās homeless numbers and the large proportion of people living on the streets with mental illness.
Psychiatric treatment for children in Medicaid managed-care plans in Missouri has declined and suicide risks are up, reveals a study sponsored by the state hospital association.
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health articles from the week so you donāt have to.
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