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Distrust of public health authorities, who say drinking raw milk is dangerous, fuels demand for unpasteurized milk products, leaders on both sides of the issue say.
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Mashup Score: 0Medi-Cal’s Fragmented System Can Make Moving a Nightmare - 1 year(s) ago
When Medi-Cal beneficiary Lloyd Tennison moved last year from Contra Costa County to San Joaquin County, he was bumped off his managed care plan without notice before his new coverage took effect. …
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RT @ahartreports: Medi-Cal’s Fragmented System Can Make Moving a Nightmare | California Healthline https://t.co/dizSVzPtLw
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Mashup Score: 5Study Reveals Staggering Toll of Being Black in America: 1.6M Excess Deaths Over 22 Years - 2 year(s) ago
The profound and painful loss — 80 million years of life, compared with the white population — is a call to action to improve the health of Black Americans, especially infants, mothers, and seniors…
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Black women with a college degree are more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women without a high school degree. Does chronic stress, including from systemic racism, takes a greater toll than previously recognized? https://t.co/ksBm4zgk9i
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Black newborns are 2½ times as likely to die before their 1st birthdays as non-Hispanic whites. Non-Hispanic Black mothers are more than 3 times as likely as non-Hispanic white mothers to die from a pregnancy-related complication. https://t.co/ksBm4zgk9i
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Mashup Score: 1Can a Fetus Be an Employee? States Are Testing the Boundaries of Personhood After ‘Dobbs’ - 2 year(s) ago
Laws granting rights to unborn children have spread in the decades since the U.S. and Missouri supreme courts allowed Missouri’s definition of life as beginning at conception to stand. Now, a wrong…
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An unusual legal argument in Missouri prompted a bill that would bar unborn children from being considered employees. @besables writes about how the boundaries of “personhood” laws are being tested after Dobbs. https://t.co/PesXsFudoG
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Mashup Score: 4Federal Rules Don’t Require Period Product Ingredients on Packaging Labels. States Are Stepping In. - 2 year(s) ago
New York and California have passed laws requiring disclosure of ingredients on menstrual product packaging. Advocates want more transparency across the U.S.
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New York’s law has resulted in the disclosure of ingredients that contain carcinogens, reproductive toxicants, endocrine disruptors, and allergens. 📝: @erica_zurek https://t.co/BgsoEuhI04
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With their brains still developing and poor impulse control, teens who carry firearms might never plan to use them. But some do.
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"Looking back, it’s easy to underplay now just how uncertain that time felt. The more that people feel uncertain, the more they feel there’s no safety around them, the more likely they are to carry weapons.” https://t.co/XP5ntpJ2z8 via @CalHealthline
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“There are just so many more guns on the streets,” said Juan Campos of @EBAYCprograms in Oakland, Calif., which works with young people living with poverty, trauma, and neglect. “Before, there were fistfights. Now, there are shootings.” https://t.co/XP5ntpJ2z8 via @CalHealthline
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Mashup Score: 1One Texas Judge Will Decide Fate of Abortion Pill Used by Millions of American Women - 2 year(s) ago
“What happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas,” warns an abortion rights advocate bracing for a district judge’s ruling on whether the abortion pill mifepristone was properly authorized by the…
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RT @CalHealthline: Read the full story from @SarahVarney4 https://t.co/L4xHwe1q7y
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Mashup Score: 1Biden Budget Touches All the Bases - 2 year(s) ago
Very little in the proposed budget released by the Biden administration is likely to become law, particularly with Republicans in charge of the U.S. House. Still, the document is an important state…
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RT @CalHealthline: ICYMI: New episode of @KHNews' podcast 'What the Health?' hosted by @jrovner. 🔗: https://t.co/RSP1g4aemF
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Many Black patients also try to be informed and minimize questions to put providers at ease. “The system looks at us differently,” says the founder of the African American Wellness Project.
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RT @ahartreports: Black Patients Dress Up and Modify Speech to Reduce Bias, California Survey Shows https://t.co/3Imr2WmDEQ via @CalHealthl…
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Mashup Score: 2‘Faces of Medi-Cal’ - 2 year(s) ago
California’s Medicaid program is massive, covering more than 15 million people — more than the populations of the 13 least populated states combined. Medi-Cal serves a diverse cross section of Cali…
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California’s Medicaid program is enormous and offers a wide range of benefits. Some patients rave about the program, but for many others, it falls short. We want to hear your Medi-Cal stories. #FacesOfMediCal ⤵️ https://t.co/TtGG2rc3yB
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To comply with some state laws, producers label raw milk as being for pets. “There’s no law against eating pet food.” 📝: @tonyleys https://t.co/ElNrJA7UWh