AAPI heritage luncheon empowers Los Angeles against Asian hate
by Yugel Losorata Ethnic Media Services A Los Angeles luncheon held to close out AAPI Heritage Month paid homage to the efforts of AAPI community leaders in Los Angeles to…
Category: Dateline USA
Covering the week’s most noteworthy news stories impacting the lives of the Filipino-American community in the United States of America.
Read More
Multilingual campaign deployed across Los Angeles to prepare for first summer heat wave
As temperatures soar into the triple digits during this summer’s first heat wave in Los Angeles, Sandra Villalobos has been going door-to-door sharing information with neighbors on how to stay…
City of San Gabriel honors AAPI youth, multicultural leaders in National AAPI Heritage Month ceremony
IN honor of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, community leaders and government officials of San Gabriel, California honored members and volunteers of an AAPI youth advocacy organization that…
New poll: Majority of Californians want clean energy neighborhoods
A new poll released for the Building Decarbonization Coalition (BDC) finds that a healthy 62% majority of California voters would support a pilot program to upgrade their neighborhoods to run…
Cal State LA receives grant to create program to support AANHPI students
Cal State LA has received a $370,000 state grant to develop a new program focused on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) student achievement efforts. The award is…
LA County proclaims June 12 as Philippine Independence Day
JUNE 12 will be recognized as Philippine Independence Day in Los Angeles County, according to a proclamation from the county Board of Supervisors. The motion, authored by Supervisor Janice Hahn…
Medi-Cal maternal care expanded to counter health disparities
To close racial and ethnic birthing outcome disparities, Medi-Cal is expanding access to maternal health services — most notably, doula care. Doulas — trained professionals who provide physical, emotional and…
Homecare workers’ fight for $20/hour as demand for their labor soars
In Nevada, where nearly half a million seniors reside, the demand for home caregivers is escalating rapidly, with a projected need for 32,000 more in the next decade to adequately…
Helping AAPI communities heal from the pain of racism
by Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services The Healing Our People Through Engagement (HOPE) program uses a “Radical Healing Framework” to help the five largest Asian communities in Los Angeles County…
New poll: Majority of Californians want clean energy neighborhoods
A new poll released for the Building Decarbonization Coalition (BDC) finds that a healthy 62% majority of California voters would support a pilot program to upgrade their neighborhoods to run…
The next human pandemic could be bird flu
by Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services The next major pandemic of Covid-like proportions will likely be avian flu, a respiratory disease already killing millions of poultry and waterfowl, and infecting…
Vaccinations may not prevent infections from new COVID sub-variant
The new KP.2 subvariant shows an amazing ability to evade immunity, and will likely spur on a summer surge of COVID-19 infections. “This is one of the more aggressive versions…
LA County launches new grant program to combat widespread food insecurity
The $10 million grant program will fund 46 local organizations fighting food inequity COMPTON, Calif. — To tackle the widespread food crisis in the Southland, Los Angeles County has unveiled…
LA County rent relief deadline on June 4
$68M in financial support to be distributed to qualified landlords LOS ANGELES – As the June 4 deadline approaches, the Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs (DCBA) urges…
Presidential election could decide fate of extra Obamacare subsidies
by Andy Miller KFF Health News When Cassie Cox ended up in the emergency room in January, the Bainbridge, Georgia, resident was grateful for the Obamacare insurance policy she had…
Vaccinations may not prevent infections from new COVID sub-variant
The new KP.2 subvariant shows an amazing ability to evade immunity, and will likely spur on a summer surge of COVID-19 infections. “This is one of the more aggressive versions…
New help for dealing with aggression in people with dementia
Caring for older adults with dementia is stressful, especially when they become physically or verbally aggressive, wander away from home, develop paranoia or hallucinations, engage in inappropriate or repetitive behaviors,…
4 ways vaccine skeptics mislead you on measles and more
by Amy Maxmen and Céline Gounder KFF Health News Measles is on the rise in the United States. In the first quarter of this year, the number of cases was…
Disaggregated data is America’s super power: It’s crucial to be counted
Disaggregated data could play a major role in resolving the U.S.’s health care inequities, revealing information about diverse populations that have not previously been counted. Standards for federal data collection…
Medi-Cal expands access to mental health, substance use treatment
by Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services California is on the national front lines of making mental health and substance use disorder care easier to access for patients of Medi-Cal, its…
Los Angeles County launches ambitious plan to tackle medical debt
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County has launched one of the most ambitious efforts in the nation to tackle medical debt, targeting hospitals for their role in feeding a $2.9…
Has California moved the needle on hate?
SACRAMENTO — In the first year after its launch, the California vs. Hate initiative has provided support services to 1,020 victims of hate crimes and incidents. At a press briefing…
Women of color will vote with their pocketbooks this November
The perception of a floundering economy will loom large as women of color — a large and reliable, but often overlooked, voting bloc — head to the polls this November….
High price of popular diabetes drugs deprives low-income people of effective treatment
For the past year and a half, Tandra Cooper Harris and her husband, Marcus, who both have diabetes, have struggled to fill their prescriptions for the medications they need to…
The lure of specialty medicine pulls nurse practitioners from primary care
by Michelle Andrews KFF Health News For many patients, seeing a nurse practitioner has become a routine part of primary care, in which these “NPs” often perform the same tasks…
Gov. Newsom boosted Califonia’s public health budget during Covid. Now he wants to cut it
When a doctor in Pasadena, California, reported in October that a hospital patient was exhibiting classic symptoms of dengue fever, such as vomiting, a rash, and bone and joint pain,…
California’s $12 billion Medicaid makeover banks on nonprofits’ buy-in
by Angela Hart KFF Health News TURLOCK — For much of his young life, Jorge Sanchez regularly gasped for air, at times coughing so violently that he’d almost throw up….
Governor Newsom’s cuts to the Equitable Building Decarbonization program will harm low-income communities
LAST week, Gov. Gavin Newsom released an updated state budget proposal that cuts $283 million in funding from the Equitable Building Decarbonization Program (EBD) — a 30% reduction. The proposed…
Easing the toll of Alzheimer’s on women
As California’s population ages, the burden of Alzheimer’s is increasingly falling on women. In response, the state has launched a new initiative aimed at raising public awareness about the disease…
Women of color will vote with their pocketbooks this November
by Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services The perception of a floundering economy will loom large as women of color — a large and reliable, but often overlooked, voting bloc —…