"Health & Medical News"

Statement by Mike Russo, Health Care Advocate and Staff Attorney for CALPIRG: 

 “With the Assembly convening on Monday and new amendments made to the health care reform bill, the pieces are in place for California’s leaders to close a deal on reforms that could greatly expand coverage, contain the surging costs of health care, and give consumers a fair shake when buying insurance.
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Washington — Diabetes by itself is hard enough to manage effectively, but try adding another one, two or three chronic diseases, and the complexities escalate.

Plus, ineffective management of some of these other diseases may be standing in the way of good diabetes control. Researchers in a recent study recommended physicians consider the “whole patient” when devising treatments and advise patients that their chronic conditions may, in fact, be related.

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A new study from PIRE’s Behavioral Health Research Center finds that drunk-driving recidivism declines when offenders are sent to DUI courts and ordered to wear electronic monitoring devices and sell their cars, but experts say that it remains unclear exactly what makes the courts effective.

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