A statewide initiative to formalize the role of community health workers and expand their ranks was meant to improve the ...

The GOP’s tax and spending law and a new rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid will make it harder to enroll in ...

A new care center for homeless people on Los Angeles’ infamous Skid Row embraces the principle of harm reduction, a more lenient approach to drug use and addiction. County officials say ...

Amid increasingly frequent natural disasters, several states have turned to registries to prioritize help for vulnerable ...

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Could Curtail Abortion Access In California: The ability to get an abortion in California could be substantially reduced by the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The legislation eliminates ...

CNN pundit Scott Jennings said almost 5 million nondisabled Medicaid recipients “simply choose not to work” and “spend six hours a day socializing and watching television.” But a recent analysis found ...

California Looked to Them To Close Health Disparities, Then It Backpedaled By Vanessa G. Sánchez July 25, 2025 A statewide initiative to formalize the role of community health workers and expand their ...

By Marina Schauffler July 22, 2025 . A doctor doing environmental health research in rural Maine is wo ...

The backroom deal with politically connected Kaiser Permanente, which infuriated other Medi-Cal health plans, allows the health care giant to continue selecting the enrollees it wants.

State officials want to use artificial intelligence to translate public health care and social services documents and websites, which they say will speed up translations, save money, and improve ...

In California, assaulting paramedics or other emergency medical workers in the field carries stiffer fines and jail time than assaulting emergency room staffers. State lawmakers are considering a ...