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California clinicians gather for long-awaited COVID forum. The latest guidelines provide guidance. – Times of illness

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David Putrino speaks backstage at the lectern while giving a keynote address about chronic COVID and IACCs. He is a white man with a shaved head and a white button-up shirt and black breathing. Next to him on the screen is a slide from his presentation that reads, "What are the chronic conditions and diseases of infection and how should they be diagnosed?"

Clinicians and people with chronic COVID gathered in Santa Barbara, California in late March for a forum on clinical care advances in chronic conditions related to the infection. David Putrino delivers the keynote address at the California Long COVID + IACCI Clinical Implementation Forum. Photo courtesy of Avi Das, Chesley Initiative. Clinicians, researchers, and people … Read more

Corn tortillas in California must now contain folic acid. Other states are looking at it CNN

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The corn tortillas are housed inside La Gloria Mexican Foods, one of the oldest tortilla factories in the city.

Fifteen years after she lost her first child to a rare and devastating birth defect, Andrea Lopez takes comfort in knowing that other Latina mothers may finally be able to avoid the same pain. In January, California became the first state to require food manufacturers to add folic acid, an important vitamin, to corn masa … Read more

Mental health workers fight for AI protections in California

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Mental health workers fight for AI protections in California

“Kaiser executives say they don’t use AI to make patient care decisions, but they won’t say what technology is behind the online questionnaires that automatically determine whether patients need urgent appointments and assess whether they might be a threat to themselves,” said Carolyn Steele, a behavioral therapist in San Francisco. “Whatever Kaiser wants to say, … Read more