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WEBKQED's health coverage provides daily news to deep-dive stories about policies, health trends, and issues that affect the Bay Area and beyond.

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Why Do Americans Have Such A Hard Time Agreeing on Health …

WEBTruman's big push. To begin to understand why the U.S. is such an outlier on the health care front, we need to go back to November 1945. That’s when President …

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Nurses Warn Patient Safety at Risk as AI Use Spreads in Health …

WEBAt a protest on Monday outside of Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco Medical Center, many in the estimated crowd of about 200 members of the California Nurses …

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California Extends Deadline for 2021 Health Insurance Through

WEBDec. 30 is the Covered California deadline to buy health coverage that starts Jan. 1, 2021 — but the open enrollment period is active through Jan. 31, 2021. …

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Lesson Plan: Police, Race and Unrest in America’s Cities

WEBCompare/contrast: 50 years ago and today Using a compare/contrast tool like this interactive Venn diagram or a printable compare/contrast template (both from …

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California Wants to Cap Medical Bills, but the Health Care

WEBCalifornia’s proposed target would allow health care prices and spending to increase but slower than in recent years. Between 2015 and 2020, per capita health …

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Face Masks Are Returning to Hospitals. What's Your Bay Area

WEBThe arrival of what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls respiratory disease season has prompted almost all of the nine Bay Area counties to issue types of …

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'Hopefully This Will Change Lives': Mental Health Curriculum

WEBHealth classes in California high schools soon will cover more than just nutrition and exercise. Thanks to a new law that went into effect Jan. 1, students will …

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Maternity Group Care for and by Black People Is Improving

WEBBElovedBIRTH Black Centering provides group perinatal and postnatal care for Black people from an all-Black health care team, where they get private checkups …

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Covered California's Enrollment Deadline Now Extended to Feb. 9

WEBState officials made the announcement through a press release on Wednesday, explaining that Covered California’s service center was recently taken …

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How to Get Reimbursed for At-Home COVID Tests This Winter

WEBBefore Nov. 11, Kaiser Permanente members could buy at-home tests from any pharmacy or store and get reimbursed by completing a form. That process is no …

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Why PE matters for student academics and wellness right now

WEBThe full impact of the pandemic on kids’ health and fitness won’t be known for some time. But it’s already caused at least a short-term spike in childhood obesity …

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You Can Transform Your Genetic Ancestry Data Into Health Info

WEBFor just $5, Promethease can turn ancestry/family DNA data from companies like 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA, and/or ancestry.com into DNA health data. The link …

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Bay Area Psychiatry Resident Pushes for Hospital Safety After

WEBDani Golomb, psychiatry resident at CPMC Sutter Davies Campus, poses for a portrait at her home in San Francisco on Feb. 9, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) When …

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State Court Upholds Alameda County Tax Measure Yielding …

WEBThe measure was passed by 64% of voters in March 2020, but the Alameda County Taxpayers Association argued that state law requires 66%, or two-thirds vote, to …

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Toby Douglas Looks Back at 10 Years Heading DHCS KQED

WEBToby Douglas has spent 10 years at the state's Department of Health Care Services, the last four as director of the department. He has seen and instituted big …

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Alameda County Mask Mandate Returns — Check Your County's …

WEBOriginal story, June 2, 2022. Alameda County health officials announced Thursday that face masks will once again be required in most indoor public settings …

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Why Renaming Oakland's Airport Is a Big Deal KQED

WEBA full transcript will be available 1–2 workdays after the episode’s publication.. Oakland officials are moving ahead with a plan to rename the city’s airport to “San …

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‘Health Care for Health Care Workers’: Hundreds Stage 2-Day

WEBHundreds of Seton Medical Center workers in Daly City took to the picket line on Monday, March 25, 2024, to demand better health care benefits and more …

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Bay Area Cities Push to Legally Validate Polyamorous Families

WEBThe California Family Council, a Christian faith-based organization, is vehemently opposed to any measure that affirms polyamorous relationships. “The push …

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Allegations of Prosecutorial Bias Spark Review of Death Penalty

WEBThe Alameda County District Attorney created a hotline for victims and survivors impacted by death penalty cases. The office can be reached by phone at 510 …

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