Kaiser agrees to $200 million in fines, fixes after failing to provide timely mental health care
Kaiser Permanente agreed to a $200-million settlement after canceling tens of thousands of mental health appointments and failing to provide timely care, California regulators said. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew J. Campa Source Type: news

California is reinventing how it deals with mental illness. Now the locals have to make it work
California voters will be asked to decide on a ballot measure in March 2024 that includes a $6.38-billion bond to pay for mental health housing and services. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Thomas Curwen Source Type: news

California bans controversial 'excited delirium' diagnosis
California bans doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to 'excited delirium,' a term often applied to Black men in police custody. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Samantha Young Source Type: news

Meghan is 'frightened' by the idea of her and Prince Harry's kids using social media one day
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, spoke out about the dangers of social media and whether their kids will use it. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christi Carras Source Type: news

Mary Lou Retton is hospitalized with pneumonia, unable to breathe on her own, daughter says
Mary Lou Retton has been hospitalized 'for over a week now' after contracting a 'very rare form of pneumonia,' her daughter says. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christi Carras Source Type: news

Our kids died in a crash on the way to Joshua Tree. How could we ever go back?
The morning after the car crash, I was in a horrific stupor, a waking nightmare more agonizing than anything I could have ever previously imagined. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Colin Campbell Source Type: news

New California law takes a step toward single-payer healthcare
Californians have been asking for single-payer healthcare for years. Newsom signed a bill to jump-start the process. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Anabel Sosa Source Type: news

Newsom vetoes bill to decriminalize 'magic mushrooms' and other psychedelics in California
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill to decriminalize certain psychedelics in California, including so-called magic mushrooms. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Anabel Sosa Source Type: news

Opinion: Why the Kaiser Permanente strike may signal more healthcare labor unrest to come
The California-based company's difficulties are increasingly common in a sector battered by COVID, political polarization and other challenges. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shira Fischer Source Type: news

British prime minister proposes a decades-long scheme to gradually ban all cigarette sales
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to stop young people in England from ever smoking by increasing the legal age each year, starting in 2027. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlotte Lytton Source Type: news

California workers will see more paid sick time off under new law
California workers will be entitled to five paid sick days, up from the current three, under a new law signed by Gov. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mackenzie Mays Source Type: news

More than 75,000 Kaiser workers go on strike amid clash over staffing, wages
Unions representing striking workers said they were protesting 'bad faith bargaining' by Kaiser executives over solutions to staffing problems. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Alpert Reyes Source Type: news

L.A. County wants to buy — and forgive — your medical debt. Here's how that would work
A report released in June that found that 810,000 L.A. County residents — roughly one in 10 — have outstanding medical debt. A disproportionate percentage were Black and Latino. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Rebecca Ellis Source Type: news

Which L.A. gym will make you cry less?
It's probably unfair to compare Equinox to the YMCA, but when an L.A. transplant was wondering which gym to sign up for, she weighed the pros and cons of both. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zo ë Bernard Source Type: news

YMCA vs. Equinox: Which L.A. gym will make you cry less?
It's probably unfair to compare Equinox to the YMCA, but when an L.A. transplant was wondering which gym to sign up for, she weighed the pros and cons of both. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zo ë Bernard Source Type: news