Health

California To Spend $41 Million To Combat Monkeypox

The goal is to make access to monkeypox treatment, testing and vaccinations easier.

A health care worker in blue scrubs and gloves administers the monkeypox vaccine into an arm with a tattoo near the shoulder.

There's No Bad Time To Get A New COVID Booster If You're Eligible, CDC Director Says

People can get the Moderna booster if they're 18 or older, and the Pfizer-BioNTech version if they're 12 and up. In both cases, they must wait at least two months since their last COVID vaccine.

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Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, attends a Senate hearing in Washington last July. She spoke to NPR shortly after the CDC recommended updated booster shots.

Doctors, Advocates Sound Alarm On Youth Mental Health Crisis: ‘I’ve Never Seen It Close To This Bad’

As experts continue to ring the alarm about a youth mental health crisis, some advocates say California is in dire need of a new level of care.

Rows of students sit at individual desks in a mostly monochromatic illustration. However, each student's head is shaded a different vibrant color.

As LA’s COVID Community Levels Fall, It’s Time For A New Vaccine Booster

Known COVID cases continue to fall.

A health worker wearing a yellow shirt administers a COVID shot to a woman at Ted Watkins Memorial Park in Watts, Los Angeles on May 5th 2022

Newsom’s Controversial CARE Court Plan To Compel Mental Health Treatment Is One Step Away From Becoming Law

Family members of people living with serious mental illness have applauded the bill’s passage while civil liberty and disability rights groups continue to warn of its harms.

California Governor Gavin Newsom stands at a podium to deliver comments about the CARE Court proposal. He wears a blue suit and tie. A sign language interpreter stands next to him to deliver the message with sign language.

The US Diet Is Deadly. Here Are 7 Ideas To Get Americans Eating Healthier

The way many Americans eat is fueling chronic disease. Here are seven big ideas from the White House's upcoming nutrition conference for how to improve Americans' diets.

The U.S. food system makes junk food plentiful and cheap. Eating a diet based on whole foods like fresh fruit and vegetables can promote health - but can also strain a tight grocery budget. Food leaders are looking for ways to improve how Americans eat.

Will California Become A Refuge For Transgender Health Care?

Lawmakers are nearing final approval of a bill to protect those receiving or providing transgender health care in California from prosecution under a wave of legislation in other states. But the proposal has drawn intense opposition from the California Family Council.

A white woman with blonde hair wearing eyeglasses and a gray t-shirt that reads Support Trans Youth stands on the porch of a home with a rainbow flag displayed behind her.

Life Expectancy In The US Continues To Drop, Driven By COVID-19

Americans' life expectancy dropped for the second year in a row and is the biggest drop since the 1920s. COVID-19 is driving the downward trend, according to CDC data.

<em></em>Flags at the Washington Monument commemorate Americans who died from COVID-19. In 2021, life expectancy in the U.S. fell for the second year in a row.

FDA Authorizes First Revamp Of COVID Vaccines To Target Omicron

The new shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech target both the original strain of the coronavirus and the omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants that most people are catching now.