Health care professionals, policymakers and African American women recently gathered in Merced to share their views on the social and racial barriers that keep women of color from being active ...

The daily news is filled with disturbing social trends portending awful consequences around the corner, next year or for generations to come. The economy is sluggish, our safety net is unraveling, ...

As the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act approaches, the most important question might be this: how are employers going to react? Early indications suggest that many companies — and ...

For decades, Los Angeles County has been a tumultuous demographic soup, with immigrants pouring in, longtime residents moving out, and the status quo turning upside down. The only thing that stayed ...

Stopping the rise of diabetes is an ongoing effort in California, especially in counties such as Monterey, where the rates of the illness are higher than the state average. In Monterey, local and ...

A recent analysis of likely health insurance premiums under federal health reform shows that younger, healthier and wealthier people will be charged more than they are today while older, sicker and ...

Jennifer McLelland is the California Health Report’s disability rights columnist. She also serves as the policy director for ...

My late father, Jim Carey, was born in 1940 as the youngest of three brothers. All of them were born with hemophilia B — a hereditary bleeding disorder that prevents blood from clotting properly.

My late father, Jim Carey, was born in 1940 as the youngest of three brothers. All of them were born with hemophilia B — a hereditary bleeding disorder that prevents blood from clotting properly.

In the1950s, patients like my father benefitted from scientific breakthroughs: Researchers identified the two types of ...

As Congress begins what is likely to be a lengthy and contentious debate over immigration reform, California has a huge stake in the outcome. We have the nation’s biggest population of immigrants, ...