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 ...

Sharissa Derricott outside of her parents’ home in Lawton, Okla., Derricott has had multiple surgeries and experiences side effects stemming from a hormone treatment given her as a child. (Nick Oxford ...

Physician assistant Daniel Speller, who works for a new nonprofit medical group called Healthcare in Action, treats a leg wound on Robert Smith, who is homeless in Long Beach. (Angela Hart/KFF Health ...

When Maira Gutiérrez was diagnosed with Chagas disease in 1997, neither she nor her primary care physician had even heard of the malady. She discovered her illness only by chance, after participating ...

[Updated at 3:40 p.m. PT to reflect news developments.] Sutter Health will pay $575 million to settle a closely watched antitrust case filed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, whose office ...

California doctors and state lawmakers are squaring off once again over the future of the Medical Board of California, which is responsible for licensing and disciplining doctors and has been ...

Vaccine protester Jessica Holloway of Lake County urges California lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom to reject vaccine mandates at a rally in front of the state Capitol in early January. (Angela ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. More than two years after California’s surprise-billing law took effect, ...

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 ...

About four years ago, Dr. Gene Dorio sat on the ethics committee of a Southern California hospital whose administrators insisted they could decide whether to disconnect a ventilator from an ...

Health care workers protest in favor of higher wages and better working conditions as they march down West Sunset Boulevard near Los Angeles Medical Center on Sept. 4. (Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times ...

State Sen. Richard Pan listens as his bill banning personal belief exemptions for vaccines required for schoolchildren is passed at the California Capitol on June 25, 2015. (Liz Hafalia/The San ...