A new union of residents in eight Northern California Kaiser Permanente locations, including San Francisco, will negotiate with the health care giant later this summer over wage increases and other benefits.
A team of volunteer registered nurses returned today from Guatemala, where they provided free medical care in rural, severely underserved areas as part of Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a disaster-relief project of National Nurses United and the California Nurses Foundation.
An analysis conducted by the Washington Post, which reference multiple reports from various organizations, revealed that the average heights for Americans has dwindled over generations and there's even a divide among professions.
More than 75,000 health care workers went on strike in California, marking the largest health care strike in US history and causing up to 13 million patients to face delays.
Doctors didn't think she'd make it into adulthood, so when years passed, "it was always in the back of my head that today could be my last day,” she says.