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 ...

When Maira Gutiérrez was diagnosed with Chagas disease in 1997, neither she nor her primary care physician had even heard of the malady. She discovered her illness only by chance, after participating ...

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 ...

This story also ran on The Sacramento Bee. It can be republished for free. Patients hurl verbal abuse at Michelle Ravera every day in the emergency room. Physical violence is less common, she said, ...

John Baackes, CEO of L.A. Care, stands in front of a window overlooking downtown Los Angeles on the 10th floor of the organization’s headquarters. Baackes will retire in January after nearly half a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A California agency charged with slowing health costs has set a lofty goal for insurers to direct 15% of their spending to primary care by 2034, part of the state’s effort to expand the primary care ...

Physician assistant Daniel Speller, who works for a new nonprofit medical group called Healthcare in Action, treats a leg wound on Robert Smith, who is homeless in Long Beach. (Angela Hart/KFF Health ...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has negotiated a secret deal to give Kaiser Permanente a special Medicaid contract that would allow the health care behemoth to expand its reach in ...

Vaccine protester Jessica Holloway of Lake County urges California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom to reject vaccine mandates at a rally in front of the state Capitol in early January. (Angela ...

About four years ago, Dr. Gene Dorio sat on the ethics committee of a Southern California hospital whose administrators insisted they could decide whether to disconnect a ventilator from an ...