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Deborah Brennan CalMatters La semana pasada, una densa niebla cubrió el estuario de Tijuana en Imperial Beach, desprendiendo un penetrante olor a huevo podrido, consecuencia de las burbujas de sulfuro de hidrógeno que brotaban del contaminado río Tijuana. Virginia Castellanos, la enfermera escolar de la Bayside STEAM Academy, cerca...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters Last week fog crept over the Tijuana Estuary in Imperial Beach, oozing a pungent rotten-egg smell, as hydrogen sulfide bubbled up from the polluted Tijuana River. Virginia Castellanos, the school nurse for Bayside STEAM Academy near the estuary, worried that students would get headaches, upset stomachs...
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In a world where medical diagnoses seem to be accelerating, Pilar Mora’s story invites us to pause and question an uncomfortable but essential idea: what if we aren’t always identifying the true cause? Pilar, a doctoral-trained researcher who shared her family’s story on Dr. Ilán Shapiro’s program on La...
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La Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible acaba de cumplir 16 años, y los líderes de California están pidiendo al Congreso que revierta los recortes masivos a la atención médica que los republicanos aplicaron el año pasado. La medida permitió que 20 millones de estadounidenses más pudieran acceder a...
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The Affordable Care Act has just turned 16, and California leaders are calling on Congress to reverse massive cuts to health care made by Republicans last year. The measure opened up Medicaid to 20 million more Americans, allowed adult children to stay on their parents’ policies until age 26, and banned...
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Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades ya no son una fuente fiable de información sobre vacunas, afirmó el pediatra Dr. Richard Besser, director ejecutivo de la Fundación Robert Wood Johnson. “Me parte el corazón tener que decirlo. Trabajé en los CDC durante 13 años con...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is no longer a credible source for vaccine information, said pediatrician Dr. Richard Besser, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “It is absolutely heartbreaking to me to say. I worked at the CDC for 13 years with dedicated employees. But I...
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Alla Katsnelson The Conversation The measles outbreak in South Carolina reached 876 cases on Feb. 3, 2026. That number surpasses the 2025 outbreak in Texas and hits the unfortunate milestone of being the largest outbreak in the U.S. since 2000, when the disease was declared eliminated here. The outbreak is...
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Alla Katsnelson The Conversation El brote de sarampión en Carolina del Sur alcanzó los 876 casos el 3 de febrero de 2026. Esa cifra supera el brote de 2025 en Texas y alcanza el desafortunado hito de ser el mayor brote en los Estados Unidos desde 2000, cuando se...