From PRWeb. Health Literacy Innovations, creators of the Health Literacy Advisor? and Spanish HLA-Asesor de Comunicación en Salud?, the nation's first interactive health literacy software tool, today announced the winners of the 2011 National Health Li… more »

From the North County Times. Flu shots are now available throughout Riverside County. And county health officials say there is plenty of vaccine to go around this fall, in contrast to the severe supply shortages that plagued clinics in 2009. "We f… more »

From The Press-Enterprise. Los Angeles-area health researchers have discovered that women of color in the Inland area might be at higher risk of suffering from cervical cancer because they are not getting screened for the disease. The California Depart… more »

From MercuryNews.com. Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill requiring hospitals to establish a policy promoting breast-feeding. The bill, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2014, targets facilities such as Watsonville Community Hospital, where a higher percentage… more »

From the Fresno Bee. Two bills that Gov. Jerry Brown signed Sunday will allow Fresno's underground needle exchange to operate legally for the first time since its start in 1994. The two new laws essentially overrule the desire of the Fresno County Boar… more »

From the Sacramento Bee. California is the &"epicenter of vaccine refusal" in the United States, Dr. Blaise Congeni of Akron Children's Hospital in Ohio told ABC News last year. That became an issue with last year's whooping cough epidemi… more »

From The Canadian - Agora Cosmopolitan. The overall quality of a pregnant woman's diet is linked with risk for two types of serious birth defects, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has shown. In the study, women who ate better… more »