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Inspectors Find Calif. Hospital’s Pharmacy Posed Infection Risk

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Thousands of patients at the San Diego-area hospital may have been exposed to infection last year because of unsanitary conditions in the compounding lab where IVs were mixed, officials found.

Aid-In-Dying: Not So Easy

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In June, California will become the fifth state to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with prescriptions from their doctors, but getting those prescriptions will require serious effort.

Will Covered California Sell Health Coverage To The Undocumented?

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California is inching closer to a first-in-the-nation request for a federal ruling that would allow the state’s Obamacare exchange to sell health plans to immigrants who are living in the country illegally.