New California law raises health workers' minimum wage to $25 per hour
The law Gov. Newsom signed Friday will raise health care workers' minimum wage to $25 per hour over the next decade.
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The law Gov. Newsom signed Friday will raise health care workers' minimum wage to $25 per hour over the next decade.
Kaiser Permanente must overhaul behavioral health care services and pay a $50 million fine under a settlement agreement announced Thursday by the California Department of Managed Health Care.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that makes it easier for authorities to compel treatment for people with mental illness or addiction issues.
Newsom said Sunday he supports increased access to condoms for teens but vetoed the bill because it would cost too much.
Gov. Newsom has taken action on a slew of bills. He has until Oct. 14 to act on legislation that lawmakers have sent to his desk.
On Saturday Gov. Newsom announced the approval of Senate Bill 770, introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-SF) which advances steps toward securing universal health coverage in California.
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill aimed at decriminalizing the possession and use of several hallucinogens, including psychedelic mushrooms.
Among the dignitaries and invited guests at the memorial for the late Senator Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco on Thursday is Dr. Anthony Fauci, who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the then-San Francisco mayor during the 1980s AIDS/HIV epidemic.
The warning about scams comes as sales have boomed for Ozempic, Wegovy and other drugs used for weight loss.
Roughly 19,000 Bay Area Kaiser Permanente workers joined tens of thousands of their colleagues around the country on the picket lines Wednesday in what their union is calling the nation's largest ever health care worker strike.
More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers are walking picket lines at hundreds of hospitals and medical centers across the U.S.
Starting Monday, family members, behavioral health providers and first responders with a history of engagement with individuals struggling with untreated mental illness, may begin using a new program for government assistance called Care Court.
A study led by Stanford Medicine found that a single genetic factor could provide some people with a level of protection against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease. CBS News Bay Area anchor Elizabeth Cook talks to Emmanuel Mignot, PhD, Professor of Sleep Medicine at Stanford and one of the study's senior authors, about how that single genetic factor could work to serve as protection, and if this means there could be some sort of link between Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Two Bay Area labor unions representing scientists, engineers, health care and office workers have approved a sympathy strike to join Kaiser Permanente workers' strike Oct. 4-6
The walkout by Kaiser Permanente nurses, orderlies and other workers represents the biggest health care strike in U.S. history.
