State Halts License Suspension Efforts Against Hollywood Nursing Home: The California Public Health Department has dropped efforts to suspend the license of Brier Oak on Sunset after it determined the ...

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SACRAMENTO — Nearly three years after California started fining residents who don’t have health insurance, the state has not distributed any of the revenue it has collected, KHN has learned — money ...

LOS ANGELES — Doug and Connie Moore met at seminary. He was a student and pastor of an inner-city congregation, and she was a student and a public health nurse. “She’s the one who drew me to the needs ...

SACRAMENTO — The nation’s dialysis industry has poured $233 million into California campaigns over the past four years, establishing its leading companies as a formidable political force eager to ...

Would you rather be buried or cremated when you die? If you feel the way I do, the answer is neither. I cringe at the thought of my body burning up at well over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit or being ...

This illustrated report has been adapted from a KFF Health News article, “Many Autoimmune Disease Patients Struggle With Diagnosis, Costs, Inattentive Care” by Andy Miller, with artwork by Oona ...

Nurse Laura Johnson administers a dose of the HPV vaccine to Abby Major, 13, at an Illinois health clinic. A California lawmaker wants all incoming college students to get an HPV vaccine, as part of a ...

Along a section of the Los Angeles River that runs between Interstate 5 and the neighborhood Atwater Village, camping tents inhabited by homeless people pop up on islets in the middle of the concrete ...

South Coast AQMD Rebuffs Efforts To Phase Out Some Gas-Powered Appliances: After a contentious, five-hour hearing, Southern California air quality regulators on Friday rejected measures that would ...

Covid-19, mumps, and chickenpox outbreaks. Contaminated water, moldy food, and air ducts spewing black dust. This story also ran on The San Diego Union-Tribune. It can be republished for free. These ...