Weekly Edition: August 30, 2019

The best California Healthline coverage from the week.

Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. Not a subscriber? Sign up   WEEKLY Edition A service of the California Health Care Foundation Friday, August 30, 2019 Check California Healthline online for the latest news California Tries Again To Make Medication Abortions Available At Its Colleges By April Dembosky, KQED A proposed state law would require on-campus health centers to provide students with the medicines that allow them to end an unwanted pregnancy. Former Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a similar bill last year, but Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he would sign it. California Requires Suicide Prevention Phone Number On Student IDs By Mark Kreidler The new law, a response to escalating suicide rates among teens, is intended to ensure students know that immediate help is available if they need it. Governor's 'Mental Health Czar' Seeks New Blueprint For Care In California By Rob Waters Thomas Insel, who ran the National Institute of Mental Health for 13 years before casting his lot with Silicon Valley, is taking a temporary break from his senior position at a health care startup to advise Gov. Gavin Newsom on how to remake mental health care in the Golden State. Mysterious Vaping Lung Injuries May Have Flown Under Regulatory Radar By Sydney Lupkin and Anna Maria Barry-Jester Doctors who saw patients with a mysterious lung illness in the past suspected vaping as the cause but didn't know where to report such cases. "It wasn't that I didn't want to report it, it's that there's no pathway," said one California pulmonologist. How And When Immigrants' Use Of Government Benefits Might Affect Their Legal Status By Ana B. Ibarra Confusion about a new federal rule to restrict legal immigration based on the use of public benefits may dampen sign-ups for health care, housing and food aid even among immigrants not directly targeted by the rule. Here are some answers to frequently asked questions that will help clear up some of the misunderstanding. California Healthline is an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation. It is produced by Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation. (c) 2019 Kaiser Health News. All rights reserved. Follow us on Twitter | Facebook You are subscribed to this email alert as awesomeblogger71.lificletter@blogger.com. Update your email preferences to choose the types of emails you receive. Or, permanently unsubscribe from all emails. If you need help or have questions, please send an email to subscriptions@californiahealthline.org Please do not reply to this email as this address is not monitored.   Kaiser Family Foundation & Kaiser Health News | 185 Berry Street | San Francisco, CA 94107