Amid the Los Angeles wildfires, California's U.S. senators co-sponsored legislation that would provide support to first ...

HHS Guts Sexual Violence Prevention Division, Leaving Local Efforts Adrift April 1 was the first day of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It's also the day the Department of Health And Human Services ...

As House Republicans mull a massive $880 billion cut from federal programs likely including Medicaid, constituents, ...

A federal judge has named a receiver to run California’s troubled prison mental health system. Colette Peters, a reformist ...

SACRAMENTO — President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving ...

Alanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a rare and debilitating genetic condition, fidgets her fingers when she’s tired and bites the air when something ...

Medical Workers Begin 3-Day Strike In Santa Clara County: After months of contract negotiations, a group of clinical lab scientists, microbiologists, and medical lab techs started picketing outside ...

SF Makes Major Change To Drug Policy: San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie on Wednesday announced that the city would no longer give users free paraphernalia to consume drugs without providing treatment ...

As states turn to the health-care system to help address homelessness, experiments with housing and other social services aimed at getting people healthier and off the streets are running up against ...

Democratic state lawmakers in California have proposed bills to protect women, transgender people, and immigrants in response to concerns that their health data could be used against them. If the ...