Leading healthcare advocates including Health Access, JERICHO, medical experts urge passage of SB 726 as immediate solution to California's growing healthcare disparities SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leading healthcare advocates and civil justice groups today urged legislators and Governor Schwarzenegger to pass SB 726 (Ashburn), legislation that would expand and extend a pilot program under the Medical Board of California, allowing hospitals in rural and low-income communities to directly employ needed physicians.

By Felix Doligosa Jr., The Bakersfield Californian Jan. 10--A doctor from Delano who misdiagnosed a stomach cancer patient who later died has been reprimanded by the Medical Board of California and ordered to be evaluated as a physician. Dr.

LOS ANGELES - The state medical board said Thursday that it is investigating a California doctor who may have prescribed methadone to Anna Nicole Smith through a prescription that contained an alias. The Medical Board of California began looking at Dr.

By Suzanne Bohan, STAFF WRITER John McKay, a 19-year-old Stanford student and champion debater, needed to talk with a doctor about his depression. Instead, he turned to an Internet pharmacy to order anti- depressants.

Facing a formal accusation of wrongdoing by the Medical Board of California, South Lake Tahoe physician Joseph Simon, M.D., has surrendered his license to practice medicine. The stipulated surrender of his medical license was ordered on October 21, 2004, and became effective October 28, 2004.