Tag: Health

  • Dental Program for Low-Income Californians Gains Patients While Losing Dentists

    By Kenny Goldberg California’s dental program for the poor is falling short. A new state review of the Denti-Cal program, shows between 2009 and 2014, the number of children enrolled in the Denti-Cal program increased by nearly 40 percent. But the number of dentists who treated Denti-Cal patients decreased by almost 14 percent. Denti-Cal pays…

  • San Diego to Loosen Tobacco Restrictions, Add E-Cigarette Rules

    By Megan Burks The city of San Diego’s Public Safety Committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a new tobacco ordinance. It would lift a 1,000-foot buffer zone around schools, playgrounds and other youth-oriented facilities that prohibits retailers from selling tobacco products. It would also strike advertising regulations within the buffer zone and a requirement…

  • A Circus Has Youth Flipping – and Exercising – at Mid City Gym

    Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers An after school program in City Heights gets youth juggling, flipping and sitting on invisible chairs. Fern Street Circus started in 1990 around the Golden Hill neighborhood of San Diego. The professional circus performed in local parks and taught clowning and acrobatics at…

  • Funding Cliff for Community Clinics Could Impact Low-Income San Diegans

    Dr. Chris Gordon meets with a patient at the Chase Avenue Family Health Center in El Cajon in 2013. | Photo Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks San Diego community clinic executives have been meeting with lawmakers in the nation’s capitol. They’re asking Congress to back away from a funding…

  • Immigrants in U.S. Illegally Could Qualify for Medi-Cal

    By Kenny Goldberg Up to 500,000 immigrants living in the U.S. illegally could be eligible for Medi-Cal coverage if executive actions  by President Barack Obama take effect, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Under the Affordable Care Act, immigrants in the country illegally are not allowed to…