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They say it will help reduce unnecessary ER visits and ensure better follow-up care. It鈥檚 also good P.R., and helps them meet their obligations to provide benefits to the community in exchange for significant tax breaks.
Some employers may opt to claim a religious or moral exemption and women could have to pick up some of the cost of this expensive contraception option.
From infections linked to the storm to trying to treat people with chronic diseases in damaged clinics, health officials on this American territory struggle to stay ahead of the needs.
Trump administration鈥檚 rule unveiled last week to allow some employers with 鈥渟incerely held moral convictions鈥 to bypass a health law requirement to provide no-cost contraceptives to women would exempt at least two anti-abortion groups: the March for Life and Real Alternatives.
ICU nurse Julayne Smithson had only a few minutes to grab some things from her recently purchased home a block from the Santa Rosa hospital. Then she rushed back to help evacuate patients and has scarcely stopped working since.
The ferocious fires in Northern California underscore the vulnerability of seniors and disabled people whose mobility is limited. Experts recommend basic precautions.
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Moms-to-be in labor had to be evacuated from Santa Rosa hospitals in the midst of the California wildfires.
In this Kaiser Health News video conversation, senior correspondent Julie Appleby and Georges Benjamin, the executive director of the American Public Health Association, hold a wide-ranging discussion about the continuing public and environmental health issues resulting from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, as well as other natural disasters such as the wildfires ravaging California.
A new link creates two-way access to the state registry that documents the type of medical care sick and frail patients want 鈥 or refuse.
Many Californians have been using pot for years, legally and illegally. But newbies, even Grandma, might benefit from a website that contains warnings about the risks.
The new rules, announced Friday, will significantly expand the number of employers eligible for exemptions from the requirement that they provide women, at no cost, coverage of any contraception method approved by the FDA.
California is one of only a handful of states nationwide that screens babies for the gene mutation that causes a rare brain disease 鈥 a test that dramatically increases a sick child鈥檚 chances of survival.
Hospitals view adding trauma care as a potential profit tool, but experts say having more centers does not necessarily improve the system鈥檚 ability to respond to a mass casualty event.
The drug, sold under the name Mavyret, can cure all six genetic types of the liver disease in eight weeks at a cost of $26,400, well below other options.
Many women who served in the military decades ago were victims of sexual assaults but often felt compelled to keep quiet.
Refugee women from conservative Muslim countries can be shocked by some U.S. medical conventions 鈥 like trusting a male doctor to care for them.
Nearly 60 percent of the U.S. blood supply is provided by people older than 40 鈥 and most of that is from folks in their 50s and 60s. Why is it so hard to find young donors?
Hoping to head off mental health crises, university officials say they will provide free online treatment to those who need it. The officials believe theirs is the largest effort of its kind in the country.
Hundreds of people, most of them homeless, have been infected. In San Diego County, where 17 people have died, critics fault authorities for being slow to act.
Some teens and young adults are spending weeks or even months in retrofitted emergency rooms 鈥 even in mesh-covered tents 鈥 until specialized care can be found. 鈥業t鈥檚 a huge problem,鈥 one doctor says.
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