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

Alanys Ortiz reads Josephine Senek’s cues before she speaks. Josephine, who lives with a rare and debilitating genetic ...

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 ...

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 ...

California Misses Deadline For Doctor Rate Increases: Officials for Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration blew past a federal deadline Monday for doctors to get paid more to see low-income patients, ...

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

When patients walked into Planned Parenthood clinics, a consumer data company sold their precise locations to anti-abortion groups for targeted ads. This story also ran on San Francisco Chronicle. It ...

California’s Medicaid program has borrowed $3.4 billion from the state’s general fund — and will likely need even more — to cover ballooning health expenses for 15 million residents with low incomes ...