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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A note on source protection: In this story, we speak to four high school students. In order to protect the identities of the students who fear repercussions based on their immigration status, we have ...

I spent three summers providing emergency services as part of Yosemite National Park’s Search and Rescue team. I hiked harder and faster than I ever had, eager to reach my patients as quickly as ...

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 ...

Mother’s Day is supposed to be about gratitude. We celebrate the people who raised us — the ones who stayed up with us at night, juggled work and caregiving and showed up no matter what. But when our ...