On Monday, 4/11, California expanded its Paid Family Leave program, when Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 908 into law. Paid Family Leave (PFL) is a lifeline for families who need to take up to 6 weeks of time off work to bond with a new...
If someone asked you “if you could get your chemotherapy treatment anywhere you can imagine, where would it be?” What would you say? Underwater? In outer space? These questions were the inspiration for the Infusionarium at the Hyundai Cancer Institute at Children’s Hospital (CHOC) in...
Recently, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to take up a widely-publicized case, Szafranski v. Dunston, involving disputed embryos. Karla Dunston, a doctor, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2009. Because her treatment presented the risk of infertility, Ms. Dunston took steps to preserve...
National Healthcare Decisions Day, or NHDD, is a national call to action, to build awareness and spark conversation on the importance of advance care planning. The theme for 2016 is “It Always Seems Too Early, Until It’s Too Late.” The main goals of NHDD are to...
by Carol Michales Exercise may be the furthest thing from your mind after a cancer diagnosis. Even if you have never been active, exercise can become one of your favorite activities. With more medical professionals recommending exercise to their patients, it is imperative for cancer survivors...
Triage Cancer and the California Dialogue on Cancer (CDOC), have partnered together in the development of new tools to help increase the use of cancer survivorship care plans. These new tools include: Cancer Survivorship Care Plans: A Toolkit for Health Care Professionals Fact Sheets for Survivors &...
If you can afford health insurance and have chosen not to buy it, you will pay a fee when you file your federal tax return for the year you chose not to have coverage. Called an individual shared responsibility payment, the fee is sometimes called...
by Michele Rosenthal One of my former students and advisees has said, “Being a college student is difficult enough. Adding cancer to the mix only makes things harder.” I have been privileged to call higher education my professional home for many years. My experiences put me in...
When you file your taxes for 2015, you’ll need to include certain information about your health coverage, depending on the type of coverage you had. You had Marketplace coverage in 2015: If you enrolled in a health plan through HealthCare.gov or your state’s Health Insurance Marketplace, watch...
By Alice Crisi For years, California advocates have struggled to secure fertility preservation insurance coverage for cancer patients. A 2013 bill even made its way to the Governor’s desk only to be vetoed because of the one penny per member per month it would cost to...