Republican proposals to tighten the use of special taxes to fund Medicaid programs could deprive states of billions of ...

Taxable cannabis sales for the first quarter of 2025 were the lowest quarterly sales in five years; tax revenues from weed sales provide funding for child care, substance abuse education, impaired ...

California lawmakers are poised to approve a six-month delay in implementing the state’s in vitro fertilization law, pushing ...

Following a petition from Democratic state attorneys general, the American Medical Association adopted a position that ...

UCSF Health To Lay Off About 200 Workers: UCSF Health will eliminate approximately 200 positions across its network, officials said Wednesday, citing “serious financial challenges” and the need to ...

Stanford Medicine Halts Gender-Affirming Surgeries For Those Younger Than 19: Stanford Medicine has stopped providing gender-affirming surgeries for patients under 19 — becoming the second major ...

5-Day Strike Will Shutter Most Of Children’s Hospital Oakland: Health care workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland plan to begin a five-day strike today over what they say are cuts in take ...

LA County Likely To Reinstate Indoor Mask Mandate Next Week: Los Angeles County is poised to impose new indoor mask rules next week as data show the hyper-infectious BA.5 omicron subvariant is pushing ...

Sacramento Bee: CalPERS Health Premium Rates Are Going Up For 2024. Here’s How Much More They’ll Cost CalPERS health insurance policyholders will officially see their premiums grow close to 11% on ...

County Mental Health Services Could Lose Out On Millions: A major proposal from Gov. Gavin Newsom to overhaul the state’s behavioral and mental health system is likely to take nearly $720 million away ...

Death Valley Came Close To Hottest Temp On Earth: An unfathomable heat descended here on Monday, the hottest place in a rapidly warming world. At the Furnace Creek Visitor Center, a digital ...