The Orange County Transportation Authority Board of Directors Monday morning chose a new forecaster after several years of assumptions by a trio of universities proved inaccurate.
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Posted inHealth & Wellness, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Study Shows Amputation Rates Higher in Low-Income Areas
Diabetes cases that require amputation of limbs and extremities are more common among poorer patients.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Top Stories
The Paradox of Latino Health
Orange County’s Mexican immigrants arrive in the U.S. in better health than the wealthier, native-born population by many measures. But over time their health begins to recede.
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A Chance to Be Heard
Top federal health officials are traveling to Bakersfield this week to hear the stories of valley fever survivors and discuss how to bring greater awareness of and funding for the sometimes crippling disease.
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Inmates Fear Being Transferred to Prisons in Valley Fever Areas
As prisoners with a higher risk of contracting the potentially deadly disease are being moved out of prisons, others are taking their place. These prisoners and their families are worried.
Posted inCountywide, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Irvine, Top Stories
Controversial Legal Defense Expected for UCI Ex-Professor
Lawyers are likely to argue that engineering professor Tatsuya Suda cannot be prosecuted for taking illegal payments because the UC system is a sovereign entity.
Posted inCountywide, Health & Wellness, Top Stories
A Long Road Ahead for Better Treatment of Valley Fever
Thousands of Californians contract valley fever each year, and in part because of a inadequate funding, doctors have relatively few options to treat the disease.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Top Stories
Many in OC Will Still Be Uninsured Despite New Health Care Law
As many as 370,000 residents — about 13 percent — could remain without health insurance when the law takes full effect in 2014.
Posted inCountywide, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories
Taking Dental Care to the Streets
Healthy Smiles of Orange County’s Smile Mobile is working to
fill what experts say might be the most overlooked health issue of
our time: lack of access to dental care.
