Aaron Glantz, Farida Jhabvala Romero, Caleigh Wells, and Alison Saldanha wrote and produced this article. The hazard that Western wildfires pose to human health extends far beyond the people who are compelled to flee the fire’s path. Large portions of the nation are being choked by smoke from these fires, which have burnt millions of…
We have posed the question, “What do you need to know about monkeypox?” to readers and listeners of KQED. Despite the fact that humans have been infected with monkeypox for more than 50 years, a lot of false material regarding the illness and its transmission has surfaced online in the wake of the most recent…
Mously Diakhate has been providing immediate care to patients in one of the hardest-hit regions in the Bay Area during the pandemic. Despite the fact that community clinics like the one she works at, LifeLong Medical Care Brookside San Pablo Health Centre, in the small East Bay city of San Pablo—which has the highest COVID-19…
Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance programme is now underway. If you haven’t been following along, you might be pleased with some of the most recent additions and modifications, which aim to reduce costs while providing coverage to millions more Americans. Thanks to provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, which extends…
It’s likely that you have heard someone in your life say the cliched but accurate statement, “you can’t buy more time.” It takes a lifetime to master the art of managing the seconds, minutes, and hours we have available to us, but what if we’re not seeing things correctly? What if we began enhancing our…
Salmonella illness related to contaminated whole and pre-cut cantaloupe has affected hundreds of people in the United States and Canada and killed at least ten. Health officials are cautioning customers, merchants, and eateries not to purchase, consume, or serve cantaloupe if they are unsure of its origin. This is crucial for those who are caring…
The largest hospital system in Delaware has agreed to pay over $47 million to resolve claims made by a former compliance officer, a whistleblower, that it paid bribes to outside physicians in exchange for patient referrals, which led to false Medicaid invoicing. Nearly seven years have passed since Ronald Sherman filed his whistleblower action against…
Beginning on April 1, residents of California who rely on Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid health care programme, for their medical costs will have to reapply for eligibility and maintain their Medi-Cal coverage. The COVID Public Health Emergency (PHE) that the federal government proclaimed in 2020 has allowed Medicaid programmes across the country, including Medi-Cal, to…
California child care centres were required to test their drinking water for possible lead contamination for the first time in state history. According to data recently released by state regulators, approximately 25% of those that reported results had levels of lead that were unsafe. Almost 1,700 of the approximately 6,900 centres whose findings have been…
Public health officials are alerting the public to the growing number of cases of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, throughout California, including the Bay Area, following a summer of unusually low case rates. The virus first became apparent in the summer and autumn of 2022 in the United States, primarily affecting men who identify as…
