With the recent U.S. government shut down, federal delays in dispersing SNAP benefits (called CalFresh in California) in ...

Medi-Cal insures a third of Californians, including 2.3 million older adults and people with disabilities. Nearly 1.8 million ...

Two older adults with similar health profiles can experience vastly different outcomes depending solely on whether they ...

Attendees at a Family Services Alliance rally at San Francisco’s City Hall in May 2023. Photo courtesy of Safe & Sound. When Raya left Oakland in 2020, she was pregnant with her daughter, had little ...

Asbestos was used in a number of Navy ships and military facilities, according to the author, including the now-closed Fort MacArthur in Los Angeles County, seen here. Photo by KKStock/iStock Veterans ...

Legislators in California’s State Capitol in Sacramento can work to protect health coverage for millions of Californian’s, the author writes. Photo from iStock/Pgiam. The country’s Medicaid system is ...

A few months ago, I took care of Rosa, a 7-week-old chubby baby with peach-fuzz hair, in our emergency room at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. I’m a pediatric resident at this safety-net hospital in ...

As the opioid epidemic has spread over the past decade, fueled by the availability of synthetic opioids like fentanyl, no corner of California has escaped unscathed. Even in the rural Eastern Sierra, ...

When I heard the news about President Trump imposing tariffs on almost everything that isn’t made in the U.S., the first thing I did was check the packaging on my son’s medical supplies. My son is ...

Hemophilia has been a constant thread in my family’s story. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of my father’s weekly plasma treatments . It was a regular part of our family’s daily life, but ...

Housing affordability and homelessness are a top concern across California communities. Solutions so far have focused on closing the gap between housing supply and demand, but that will take years, ...