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Nancy Vaughan column: Health care is available despite enrollment challenges | Columns
For the third year, there is a very short window – Nov. 1 to Dec. 15 – to sign up for health insurance through the federal marketplace; however, 2020 is challenged unlike any other with in-person assistance funding cut by more than 80 percent and advertising extremely limited. Additional efforts to undermine the marketplace – …
Online Art Class Gives Break to Home Schooling Parents – NBC 7 San Diego
A new online tool is helping a San Diego mother give her kids a break from their home school routine while still keeping them engaged educationally. The set up might be the same at many homes: students with headsets staring at a computer screen. But for one special hour, the Delgado sisters take pencil to …
Passover Celebrations Continue Through Technology – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
The Passover seder is a Jewish ritual and feast celebrating the start of Passover. “We commemorate our exodus from slavery in Egypt thousands of years ago,” Stuart Prescott who will celebrate seder said. It’s a multi-generational celebration that brings a large number of family and friends together. Prescott’s home last year was set up for …
Industry Sees Greater Role Coming for Technology After Recovery – NBC 7 San Diego
At least one La Jolla real estate broker is looking for some long-term benefits to come out of the emergency measures he and others are taking to get through the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch for real estate agents and other businesses to latch onto and embrace technology like never before after sampling it as they hunkered …
Fort Worth ISD Schools Undergo Deep Cleaning During Spring Break – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Every campus within the Fort Worth Independent School District is undergoing a deep cleaning while students and staff are on their spring break holiday. “We have been working since the kids went on spring break last Friday, and we’ll be working right up through Sunday to make sure every campus has been cleaned beyond the …
Gov. Newsom to Address Homelessness, Mental Health – NBC Bay Area
California’s governor is expected to call for better mental health care to help the state’s huge homeless population when he addresses one of the state’s most pressing problems in his second State of the State speech. Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom offered what he called “a little preview” of his Wednesday speech. “We’re committed to …
OC’s Chief Health Officer Provides Coronavirus Update, Says Flu Greater Risk Currently – NBC Los Angeles
Orange County’s chief health officer told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday the county faces a much greater risk from the flu than the coronavirus that has killed more than 1,000 people, mostly in China, but “all of the science on this is changing rapidly.” The virus, which was renamed COVID-19 on Tuesday by the World …
Claris Health Leads Mobile Health Unit to Underserved Communities – NBC Los Angeles
Monica Mendez and Jessica Chow both faced unplanned pregnancies at a young age. Each made a different choice. “When I saw the pregnancy stick, I thought my life was over,” said Chow, who decided to have an abortion. “I don’t want to do this, I want to keep my child,” Mendez, who had her child, …
Bureaucratic, technological barriers impeding public’s desire for digital health innovations, conference told
The public is clamouring for and embracing digital health innovations – virtual visits, remote monitoring, e-prescriptions and more – but bureaucratic and technological barriers are standing in the way of widespread adoption, a national health summit heard Tuesday. A panel of health experts at the Canadian Medical Association health summit in Toronto offered a long …
Just this once, maybe things are breaking right for Milos Raonic, tennis’s unluckiest guy
After he’d won his match on Friday, Milos Raonic was asked about lucky charms. Does he have one? Raonic has a way of looking at someone for a beat before he answers, as though he’s trying to figure out what they really mean. But for this one, he was already shaking his head before the …
