Proposition 35, which would use revenue from a tax on managed-care plans to raise the pay of health care providers who serve ...

A new bill would create a scholarship program for students who agree to work with specialized courts in California to get ...

Longer life spans, rising rates of divorce, widowhood, and childlessness, and smaller, far-flung families are fueling a “gray ...

Despite years of national strategies to address the suicide crisis in the U.S., rates continue to rise. A chorus of ...

California lawmakers are moving to rein in the pharmaceutical middlemen they say drive up costs and limit consumers’ choices.

SIKESTON, Mo. — For residents of Sikeston, as for Black Americans around the country, speaking openly about experiences with racial violence can be taboo and, in some cases, forbidden. As a child, ...

The “Silence in Sikeston” documentary film explores how the nation’s first federally investigated lynching and a police killing 78 years apart haunt the same rural Missouri community. The film from ...

The generally combative face-off was marked by a series of false and sometimes bizarre statements from former President ...

An increasing number of Americans struggle with energy poverty, the inability to adequately heat or cool one’s dwelling.

Cal’s largest health plan following the Affordable Care Act expansion, and later prepared it for a state overhaul of Medi-Cal ...

Social media has helped spread the word about a treatment that involves getting Botox in the neck. It’s for a condition ...

About 8% of Americans lacked health insurance in 2023, the Census Bureau announced. But its report doesn’t capture the effect ...