What You Need To Know About March 31 Obamacare Enrollment Deadline In California
What to consider as the first open enrollment period in California under the federal Affordable Care Act comes to an end:
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What to consider as the first open enrollment period in California under the federal Affordable Care Act comes to an end:
Monday is the deadline for Americans to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama Administrations health reform law.
Some patients at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco have been warned to get tested for HIV and other infectious diseases after hospital officials learned some equipment was improperly sterilized, a hospital spokesman said Friday.
UCSF is recommending several changes following an independent review of the security program at San Francisco General Hospital after last year's case involving Lynne Spalding prompted them to do so.
There's no extension of the deadline to sign up for Covered California, but people who start their applications by Monday will have until April 15th to finish the process.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has ranked Marin the healthiest county in California.
Smoking e-cigarettes is getting harder to do in parts of the Bay Area after the San Francisco and Santa Clara County boards of supervisors approved restrictions on the devices Tuesday.
"The Jungle" has been described as one of the largest homeless encampments in the nation. Santa Clara County health officials say it's become a breeding ground for sexually transmitted diseases.
With less than a week to go from its Monday deadline, Covered California has blown past its enrollment goals for the new health insurance program, according to officials.
The Assembly Health Committee voted 15-0 Tuesday to repeal and revisit the regulation before enforcement begins this summer, following opposition from chefs and bartenders.
Children who repeatedly play violent video games learn thought patterns that will stick with them and influence behaviors as they grow older...
A study released in the journal Health Economics casts doubt on claims that soda taxes are an effective way to combat obesity.
Santa Clara County, which has more cases of tuberculosis that most U.S. states, will shift from testing public school students for TB to requiring a "risk assessment" for the disease, officials said.
Electronic cigarettes, which have been touted as way to help regular cigarette smokers kick the habit, may be driving young people toward traditional smoking and nicotine addiction, according to new study by the University of California, San Francisco.
Union officials say a planned strike by thousands of University of California hospital workers has been averted after contract talks yielded a deal.
