In a rural, largely Republican region of California, homegrown efforts to bolster the medical workforce face an uphill battle ...

A nonprofit fighting affirmative action in medicine and a Los Angeles ophthalmologist have launched a long-shot legal appeal ...

LA County Child Dies Of Measles Complications Years After Illness: A school-age child has died from a rare complication of measles after contracting the disease in infancy, public health officials ...

UC President Warns Of The Possibility Of More Research Funding Cuts: The University of California’s top leader warned Monday that the federal government’s $1.2 billion fine and sweeping proposals to ...

The San Diego Union-Tribune: Prop. 36 Promised Treatment For People With Serious Drug Addiction, But Jails Are Left Holding The Bag Billed as the “Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft ...

Sharissa Derricott outside of her parents’ home in Lawton, Okla., Derricott has had multiple surgeries and experiences side effects stemming from a hormone treatment given her as a child. (Nick Oxford ...

Jee Hyo Kim, a community health worker at Asian Health Services, received training in lay counseling to support people who have experienced trauma. (Loren Elliott for KFF Health News) In her first ...

SACRAMENTO — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as ...

Tener gripe, tener gripa, engriparse, agriparse, estar agripado, estar griposo, agarrar la gripe, coger la influenza. In Spanish, there are at least a dozen ways to say someone has the flu — depending ...

California this year took the final step in opening Medi-Cal, its Medicaid program, to every eligible resident regardless of immigration status. It’s a significant expansion for an already massive ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks at a press conference in Los Angeles on March 21. Bonta sponsored a bill that would require private equity groups and hedge funds to notify his office of ...

Disability rights advocates sued Tuesday to overturn California’s physician-assisted death law, arguing that recent changes make it too easy for people with terminal diseases whose deaths aren’t ...