Like many patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain, Todd Papianou, a high school teacher from Rumford, knows the thin line between life-saving and life-destroying medication.
Healthcare Regulation and Reform
Many Bay Area seniors worry about how they can afford to live out their retirement years here — and they have reason for concern.
Many seniors in the Bay Area are already struggling to make ends meet, and it’s about to get a whole lot worse.
In the coming years, the Baby Boomer generation will be aged 65 and over, and as health care needs increase, more resources for adults with diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia will be needed on the Central Coast.
A major new investigation details how nursing homes failed during COVID-19.
How policy decisions and limited investment in Virginia made Latinos the most likely to get infected, hospitalized and die.
Inspector General Max Huntsman said he “received complaints from pregnant people in custody and their loved ones” about food and bottled water availability in jail, as well as out-of-cell time for exercise, and other issues.
As the population ages and the baby boomer generation retires, nurse shortages are projected in California and on the Central Coast. This challenge comes on top of the already depleted health care workforce due to the pandemic.
Three of my relatives, all Mixteco farmworkers in California, died of COVID-19 last year. As we mourn, we wonder if diabetes played a role in their deaths.
The state is on the cusp of becoming the first to offer all residents health care coverage, regardless of their immigration status.