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When Charles Garcia looks at a garden, he doesn't see plants. He sees medicine, heritage, art and magic. A curandero, Garcia practices traditional folk healing – curanderismo – the way his mother, grandmother and grandfather did. “It's a combinat...

May 15, 2013My fellow Sacramento heart transplant buddy, Tom Inks and his wife Sheila are walking a  part of the Camino De Santiago. If you saw the movie "The Way"you understand the journey they are embarking upon. They are leaving May 21st and wa...

The Robert Klein-StemCells, Inc., affair has taken another turn with the disclosure that a vice chairman of the California stem cell agency was paid at least $31,000 over a two-year period by Klein and also voted on behalf of Klein's effort to win appr...

By Mary Flynn California’s sweeping criminal justice reform plan, in place since October 2011, was meant to sharply reduce the state’s prison population. But the changes may have also had the unintended consequence of passing along the biggest p...

As the California stem cell agency pushes ever more aggressively to turn research into cures, the second largest share of its awards, in terms of numbers of grants, has gone to efforts involving induced pluripotent cells, also known as reprogrammed a...

The California Stem Cell Report today received the following email from Don Reed, a patient advocate, who has long been involved in California stem cell agency affairs. Reed is vice president of public policy for Americans for Cures Foundation, a...

Gov. Jerry Brown committed Tuesday to a state-based expansion of subsidized health care for low-income Californians, abandoning a proposal he had floated that would have required each of the state's 58 counties to provide care for the low-income people...

Because our elected officials have sucked up to the NBA and done everything the billionaires’ club has asked by way of funding a new arena, shouldn’t Sacramento get to keep the Kings? Isn’t that what integrity is all about? On … Continue reading →

Welcome to the May 2013 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Emergency Preparedness This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared their plans ...

By Hannah Guzik Under the Affordable Care Act, health care providers are required to offer domestic-violence screening and counseling to all women, and health insurance companies are required pay for those services. Health care providers statewide h...