Health and Medicine

Judge allows thousands of UC medical workers to strike

By Peter Hecht - Updated: 7:45 am

A Sacramento judge Monday refused to stop a strike today by thousands of employees at the UC Davis Medical Center and four other UC hospitals – but ordered a limited number of critical care employees to stay on the job.

NorCal AIDS Cycle raises $330,000 for 11 groups

Bee staff - Published: Monday, May 20 2013 - 12:00 am

A group of 225 bicycle riders and crew raised $330,000 for 11 AIDS research and related groups during a four-day trip in Northern California.

L.A. poised to go after Las Vegas hospital in patient-dumping cases

By Phillip Reese and Cynthia Hubert - Updated: Monday, May 20 2013 - 11:38 am

Multiple agencies, including the Los Angeles city attorney's office, are investigating whether Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada's primary public mental health facility, has been systematically dumping patients across state lines for years.

Nevada patient busing: More coverage of this issue

Immigrants' health worsens living in U.S.

By Sabrina Tavernise - Updated: Sunday, May 19 2013 - 8:19 am

Becoming an American can be bad for your health.

Hospitals cancel elective surgeries ahead of strike

By Anita Creamer and Associated Press - Updated: Sunday, May 19 2013 - 11:39 am

Sacramento's UC Davis Medical Center and four other large University of California hospitals have begun canceling elective surgeries because of a two-day strike planned by some workers next week.

California's health exchange to serve as voter registration hub

By Jim Sanders - Updated: Sunday, May 19 2013 - 9:29 am

Millions of Californians who contact the state's new health exchange to buy insurance will be given the opportunity to register to vote, too, a move that some Republicans fear could benefit Democrats.