WELLNESS

COVID WATCH - There is a board-game called Pandemic that has been around for years before Covid 19 circled the globe. In Pandemic, you and your fellow players are members of a disease control team.

HEALTH CARE - For most of her adult life, Holly Mitchell has worked to advance policy-based solutions for California’s staggering disparities in health care access and coverage. 

MEDICAL WATCH - In 2013, two women in their 30s died in a plastic surgeon’s California ambulatory center as a result of unnecessary surgeries;

HEALTH & WELLNESS - Over the last few years, CBD has taken the skincare and beauty industry by storm. With multiple studies uncovering the benefits of cannabidiol on the skin, skincare brands are now infusing CBD into their products.

HEALTH CARE - If the subject is how to provide health care to Californians, Sarah Dar suggests, it may be useful first to define terms.

MEDICAL WATCH - Under a 1975 California law known as MICRA – the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act – the victim of medical malpractice may collect no more than $250,000 for pain and suffering,

COVID WATCH - At this point, we still don’t know very much about the Omicron variant, except that it spreads far more quickly than the Delta variant.

WELLNESS - During the first wave of the pandemic in April 2020, my boyfriend asked, not unkindly, if I’ve ever been diagnosed with anything besides generalized anxiety disorder.

COVID MANDATE - Maybe it took a politician with little to lose in order to get it done.

MEDICAL WATCH - If a doctor harms you or kills a loved one, what recourse is there in California?

MOVING MONEY POLITICS--2021 has been a disastrous year for Facebook (now Meta) – and deservedly so. Thanks to ex-employee Frances Haugen, we know this monolithic tech giant repeatedly put profit before the world’s well-being.

COVID WATCH - There is movement again at Vanessa’s Positive Energy, a dance and fitness studio near the busy corner of Normandie and Manchester in South Los Angeles.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - For starters, I am not an anti-vaxxer.

WELLNESS - This is the story of a group of citizens' advocating for major change with one of the largest governmental bodies in the State of California.

COVID MANDATE - Like most COVID-related safety measures, the city of Los Angeles’ newest proof-of-vaccine mandate can be analyzed to the point of disorientation.

COVID WATCH - Stop me if this sounds familiar.

COVID WATCH - The holidays are here and people are ready to gather, hug and feast. But is California in a better place this year when it comes to COVID-19? 

HEALTH INSURANCE - In 2003, George W Bush set up the destruction and privatization of Medicare.

VACCINE MANDATES - In San Francisco earlier this month, a 17-year veteran of the city’s police force died while on leave from his job.

WELLNESS - A 30-year-old mother in Argentina has become the second known person in the world to be cured of HIV just by her own immune system.

WELLNESS - If demographics and geography really were COVID destiny, then Gonzales—a small, working-class town with a young, overwhelmingly Latino population in rural California—would be a pandemic disaster.