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Federal changes starting in 2027 could impact 1 million L.A. County enrollees.
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Vas a tener un bebé y queremos ayudarte, desde el punto de vista periodístico, claro.
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BMI is everywhere. It uses an equation — essentially a ratio of mass to height — to categorize patients as overweight, underweight, or at a “healthy weight.” It’s appealingly simple, with a scale that designates adults who score between 18.5 and 24.9 as within a healthy range.
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Even though California Gov. Gavin Newsom is funneling billions of taxpayer money into an ambitious initiative to provide some low-income patients with social services, hospital executives and other critics say it won’t improve access to basic care.
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Scientists have devised a new model for studying disorders like autism spectrum disorder and ADHD. It uses clusters of human brain cells grown inside the brain of a rat.
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The idea of human composting — to help restore a forest or grow flowers — may be a little off-putting to some, but it has many advantages over traditional-but-toxic methods of burial and cremation.
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The complaint filed in California says Amazon sold the food preservative sodium nitrite, which lawyers say has no household use at high purity levels, to people who later killed themselves using the substance.
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About 355,000 of the 7 million eligible people in L.A. County have received the shot.
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The bill switched gears after an LAist investigation into the program.
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A statewide survey of some 30,000 Californians reveals an uptick in the number of people reporting serious mental health struggles over pre-pandemic years.
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California voters will face two ballot propositions this fall aimed at capturing the state’s sports betting market. One would legalize sports betting, but only within existing brick-and-mortar establishments that already offer gambling and at horse-racing venues. The other would legalize online sports betting.
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There is a lot of information about coronavirus vaccines out there, and some of it seems vague or contradictory. We talked to experts to help answer some of the most common and confusing questions.
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The university got the federal funds to study the fast growing cohort.
