As health costs escalate, affordable care is out of reach for many — particularly California’s poorest residents. We help readers understand the struggle to lower costs and access barriers.
Kindergartners repeat worries heard at home. Older kids text to check on parents during class. Therapists say mental health is at risk now and in the long term.
Leading medical organizations informed the state's new guidelines, announced as part of a western states alliance. A new law requires insurers to cover vaccines for most Californians.
California lawmakers sent several bills to the governor that aim to protect consumers and improve patients' access to care. Opponents have raised concerns about their cost.
Whether federal cuts are legal is still undecided. But local health departments have closed clinics, stopped programs, cut immunization appointments, and laid off workers anyway.
A U.S. district judge issued a preliminary injunction, temporarily pausing a series of federal policies aimed at restricting certain immigrants’ access to public benefits and programs.
UCLA researchers have found that hydrogen sulfide emissions at the Salton Sea are at elevated levels and can cause serious health effects to those that live near the lake.
After a CalMatters investigation, lawmakers asked Christine Matlock Dougherty to testify on behalf of bills to regulate mental health insurance. They didn't pass this year.
As health costs escalate, affordable care is out of reach for many — particularly California’s poorest residents. We help readers understand the struggle to lower costs and access barriers.