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Hospital executive charged in $1.4B rural hospital billing scheme

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5 things to now as California starts screening children for toxic stress

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Modern wildfires pose new health risks for firefighters

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FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013, file photo, Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, announced that nearly 35,000 people signed up for health insurance during the first month of open enrollment, from Oct. 1 through Nov. 2, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. State-run health insurance markets that offer taxpayer-subsidized coverage under President Barack Obama’s law are grappling with high costs and disappointing enrollment, challenges that could lead more of them to turn over functions to the federal government, or join forces with other states. With the pressure gone, "I think you are going to see a much more of a hybrid across the nation,' said Lee. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

With ACA’s future in peril, California reins in rising health insurance premiums

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Students with disabilities call college admissions cheating “big slap in the face”

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FILE- In this Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, file photograph, a small bottle of the opiate overdose treatment drug, naloxone, also known by its brand name Narcan, is displayed at the South Jersey AIDS Alliance in Atlantic City, N.J. It is becoming easier for friends and family of heroin users or patients abusing strong prescription painkillers to get access to naloxone, a powerful, life-saving antidote, as state lawmakers loosen restrictions on the medicine to fight a growing epidemic. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File) (AP)

More states say doctors must offer overdose reversal drug along with opioids

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In California, doctors accused of sexual misconduct often get second chances

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First, marijuana — are magic mushrooms next?

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Fire at psychiatric hospital shows need for more beds

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Why blue states might ditch beloved Obamacare protections

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