California closely monitors whether nursing home residents fall. Regulators track incidents, facilities report them and ...

Children play at a park in front of San Francisco City Hall. Photo by TravelView/iStock. When California committed to “Medi-Cal for All Children” a decade ago, it made a powerful promise to families ...

UC Davis, center, has programs to provide health care to rural communities statewide. Photo by Hal Bergman/iStock. Every Californian should have access to quality health care, no matter where they ...

To those who knew him, Noah Silver was a bright, happy child identified as gifted with a penchant for playing instruments. He started playing bass guitar at the age of 11 and picked up acoustic guitar ...

For more than 20 years, Jessica Johnson lived on the streets of El Sobrante, Antioch and other cities in Contra Costa County. For a while, she slept behind a bank. Sometimes, she’d find respite in a ...

Without serious intervention, July 1 will usher in a new era for American health care, carrying dire consequences for decades to come. Under President Donald Trump’s big 2025 budget bill, known as H.R ...

I was in my mid-40s when I found a lump in my left breast. It wasn’t long before doctors detected cancer on the right side as well, and soon after that I was meeting with a plastic surgeon to discuss ...

When California rolled out its 988 mental health crisis response hot line in July 2022, architects believed it would lead to an overhaul of the emergency medical system. They envisioned callers in ...

Spencer Austin with Micka Sorani, a Spelling to Communicate practitioner, during a recent spelling session in Newbury Park. Photos courtesy of Karen Harrison. How do I begin such a topic when those ...

Shari Horne didn’t have high hopes when her aunt arranged a blind date for her in 1998. But Shari and her date, Hal, ended up falling in love. Now, more than 25 years after they vowed to be there for ...

Growing up in Southern California in the 90s, Mary Lu experienced firsthand how challenging it was for immigrant families like hers to access therapy and support. “I really wanted to help families ...