Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a suite of privacy protection bills for transgender patients amid continuing threats by the Trump administration. This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be ...

San Francisco Sees Dip In OD Deaths: Accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco have dropped to the lowest monthly number so far this year. According to the Department of Public Health, 38 people ...

California this week plans to notify Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees that their costs could rise sharply next year unless Congress extends subsidies to help people buy health insurance. This ...

California’s nursing shortage is projected to worsen, and hospitals say funding cuts will only add strain. But front-line ...

The Northeast Valley Health Corp. in Los Angeles County could be a poster child for the benefits of sharing health data electronically. This story also ran on The Orange County Register. It can be ...

Olivia Owlett, one of four residents in the inaugural class of Healthy Rural California's family medicine residency program in Chico. She was drawn to the region in large part because its health care ...

California Again Has America's Highest Poverty Rate: California continued to have the highest poverty rate in the nation last year at 17.7%, tied only with Louisiana, according to new data from the ...

Oakland Schools Improve Lead Contamination In Drinking Water: Oakland Unified School District officials say they are making major strides in lead remediation efforts at the city’s public schools, more ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference on April 16 in Ceres, near Modesto. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t expect to be reckoning with ...

SACRAMENTO — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as ...