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Two new studies have identified an alarming connection between exposure to wildfire smoke during pregnancy and autism in young children.
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A judge's ruling puts access to the abortion drug mifepristone in limbo, pending further court decisions. But there's another drug that is safe and effective at ending early pregnancy.
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California, Washington state and Massachusetts are stockpiling misoprostol, a drug used around the world, in case another drug is taken off the market.
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A ruling that suspends federal approval for medication abortion will not be easy for California abortion access advocates to overcome. Unless it’s reversed on appeal, the drug will likely be pulled from pharmacy shelves.
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A federal judge in Texas stayed the FDA's approval of the drug mifepristone, while a federal judge in Washington state has blocked any FDA change in access.
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Last month the governor tweeted that the state would stop doing business with Walgreens following the second-largest U.S. pharmacy chain saying it would not dispense an abortion pill. Turns out it's more complicated.
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An estimated 53 million Americans are acting as unpaid caregivers to loved ones, according to the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP's Caregiving in the U.S. 2020 report.
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Older adults and others at high risk will soon be able to get a second shot of the COVID-19 booster that targets omicron.Listen 3:58
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to shift more money to housing severely mentally ill homeless people. Some officials at mental health organizations fear that funding will come from cuts to other services they provide.
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Patients who have digestive symptoms only after eating red meat may have developed an allergy caused by ticks. Previously, doctors looked for symptoms such as rashes, hives and breathing troubles.
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Democratic leaders in California and Oregon are becoming more open to using involuntary psychiatric commitment to combat homelessness, drug abuse and untreated mental illness.
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Jail officials and county-appointed monitors alike say current care in the jails is severely deficient. Coroners' records reviewed by LAist show a jump in suicides inside L.A. County’s downtown jail complex in 2021.
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Doctors, nurses and health care professionals have been on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 since the pandemic began three years ago. We asked six of them how their lives, jobs, and views about medicine and public health have changed since.
