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100+ Coachella shuttle drivers reported being sick from food poisoning

Riverside County health officials are continuing to investigate the apparent food poisoning that led to the hospitalization of at least 46 shuttle bus drivers who were shuttling attendees to and from the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Jose Arballo Jr., spokesperson for the county’s health department, told News Channel 3’s Samantha Lomibao on Tuesday

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In-Depth: Prescription to Save

A first-of-its-kind online pharmacy says it is putting people ahead of profits to save members up to 99% on drug costs. Scriptco Pharmacy, which recently got licensed in California, takes the true wholesale cost of a drug, and passes it on to the consumer. And as News Channel 3’s Peter Daut discovered, the savings can

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EPA issues emergency orders to mobile home Parks in Thermal area over arsenic

Warning of potentially high arsenic levels in drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued three emergency orders to privately owned and operated mobile home parks on the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Tribe’s Reservation near Thermal, authorities announced today. The orders require the owners of Mora Mobile Home Park, Valladares Mobile Home Park and

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Newsweek names El Mirador Surgery Center as a top 10 best Ambulatory Surgery Centers in California

Newsweek ranked the best Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) in America for 2022 and we’ve got some valley representation in this list. ASCs are facilities where patients can have specific surgical procedures that usually don’t require hospitalizations – which means they are normally home the same day as the surgery. Newsweek partnered with respected global research

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Eisenhower Health scores no. 1 spot on cardiovascular hospital list

Eisenhower Health in Rancho Mirage has been named the top cardiovascular teaching hospital in the nation without a cardiovascular residency program by Fortune and IBM Watson Health, officials announced today. The annual Fortune/IBM 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals study spotlights short-term, acute care, non-federal U.S. hospitals that treat a broad spectrum of cardiology patients, according to

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Drug overdose deaths top 100,000 annually for the first time, driven by fentanyl, CDC data show

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN America’s drug epidemic is the deadliest it has ever been, new federal data suggests. More than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in the United States during the 12-month period ending April 2021, according to provisional data published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a new

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Southern California Kaiser Permanente union members vote to authorize strike

Unions representing thousands of Kaiser Permanente health care workers in Southern California said today their members have voted to authorize a strike, which union officials say would likely “cripple” the health care giant’s operations. The United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals said 96% of 18,209 participating members working at Kaiser Permanente’s Southern

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Comprehensive Cancer Center at Desert Regional extending its hours for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is going pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Comprehensive Cancer Center at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs is starting its annual Mammogram Mondays for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The center is extending its hours on Mondays to help get more women screened. Throughout October, the center will be open 7:30

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