Newsom Signs, Vetoes Several Health-Related Bills: Among them, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have given Californians easier access to HIV prevention medications known as PrEP or PEP. Read ...

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Spotlight illuminates the newsmakers and behind-the-scenes players who shape health care in California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. Imagine identifying a toxin so potent it could rewire a ...

Ambulances line up at the emergency department of Children's Health of Orange County in Orange, California. (Los Angeles Times/Getty Images) Last year, Jennifer Reisz’s college-age daughter, Megan, ...

Members of the Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West, a California union, protest at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on May 9, 2022, in Los Angeles. (Francine Orr/Los ...

Former California Assembly member Susan Talamantes Eggman discusses a bill in 2017 with then- Sen. Ted Gaines. On Thursday, state Sen. Eggman was named chair of the Senate’s influential health ...

Olivia Owlett, one of four residents in the inaugural class of Healthy Rural California's family medicine residency program in Chico. She was drawn to the region in large part because its health care ...

States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and ...

California Again Has America's Highest Poverty Rate: California continued to have the highest poverty rate in the nation last year at 17.7%, tied only with Louisiana, according to new data from the ...

Unionized health care workers rally in Los Angeles in July 2022 in support of raising the minimum wage to $25 an hour for workers at some privately owned health facilities. (Myung J. Chun / Los ...

Gabor Maté, an addiction specialist and author, is known for tracing substance abuse problems to trauma that often starts in childhood and spans generations. (Credit: Lukas Foxx courtesy of ...

Sean Brown, recovering from methamphetamine addiction, lost his housing in the Eaton Fire in January. “I had nothing but the clothes on my back. It just brought back all of those feelings of being ...