Month: August 2026
As California experiences longer, more intense heat waves and could be on track for its hottest year on record, health experts are urging people to take simple steps to prevent heat-related illnesses. In the United States, heat is a leading cause of weather-related deaths, more than hurricanes, floods, and wildfires. Earlier this month, Governor Gavin Newsom announced an Extreme Heat Action ...
At the beginning of this year, Las Vegas insurance broker Harry Mex’s cellphone started ringing more than usual. Clients were calling Mex after learning what they would have to pay for health insurance in 2026. Some said their monthly premiums had doubled or tripled even though their incomes had not changed. Others were facing higher ...
Nevada’s school immunization requirements remain in effect despite recent changes to the federal childhood vaccine schedule, the Southern Nevada Health District said. “At this time, we understand that the changes to the federal recommendations do not change Nevada’s existing school immunization requirements,” the health district said in a statement. “Vaccines continue to be available, and ...
Efforts to rein in the high cost of health care in recent years often have targeted the use of prior authorization by insurers. Patients and providers argue that it can result in delays or denials in receiving needed care, while insurers counter that it helps reduce costs by limiting the use of low-value or unnecessary ...
State officials announced a “dramatic drop” in the number of children with behavioral health disabilities who have been placed in institutional settings and other changes, including the launch of new services as well as service rate increases, marking progress on Nevada’s efforts to comply with federal disabilities law since the Department of Justice called out the ...
The American Medical Association is out with a new framework for physicians’ role in the age of AI, provided first to Axios, that insists doctors remain central to patient care. Why it matters: The debate over whether AI will supplant doctors in clinical care is heating up, but the AMA has remained adamant that humans not ...
California is not changing its childhood vaccination recommendations, or its requirement to have health insurers cover the inoculations, after President Donald Trump’s executive order that calls for reducing the number of vaccines U.S. children receive, state health officials say. The executive order, signed this week, calls for scaling back the number of routine childhood vaccinations, splitting the MMR ...
While overall medical costs continued to rise, prescription drug prices fell by 3.1 percent in the year ending in July, the steepest annual decline since 1963.
At a Walgreens in this city’s bustling Japantown neighborhood, pharmacist Margaret On stocks two boxes of long-acting insulin pens from California’s new prescription drug label, CalRx, emblazoned with the state’s iconic grizzly bear. Although she hasn’t dispensed any, On plans to keep them on hand. “It’s good to have if a patient comes in and doesn’t ...
Kaiser Permanente reported nearly $1.7 billion in operating income (4.6% operating margin) during the second quarter of 2026, a more than $600 million improvement over the same period in 2025. The country’s largest nonprofit health system, in a quarterly financial update shared Friday that precedes its more granular regulatory filing, outlined $35.6 billion in operating ...