A new care center for homeless people on Los Angeles’ infamous Skid Row embraces the principle of harm reduction, a more ...

The Daily Edition will not be published Friday or Monday in observance of July Fourth. Look for it again on Tuesday, July 8. Below, check out the roundup of California Healthline’s coverage. For today ...

In recent years, locally acquired dengue cases have appeared in California, Florida, and Texas, parts of the U.S. where the ...

Newsom Signs Budget That Slashes Health Care Expansion For Immigrants: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Friday a budget that pares back a number of progressive priorities, including a landmark ...

UCSF Health To Lay Off About 200 Workers: UCSF Health will eliminate approximately 200 positions across its network, officials said Wednesday, citing “serious financial challenges” and the need to ...

California lawmakers are poised to approve a six-month delay in implementing the state’s in vitro fertilization law, pushing ...

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 ...

Support Without Forced Treatment Housing First was implemented nationally in 2004 under the George W. Bush administration to combat chronic homelessness, defined as having lived on the streets with a ...

Enrollment of underrepresented groups at medical schools fell precipitously this academic year after the Supreme Court’s 2023 ban on affirmative action. Education and health experts worry the Trump ...

When Colleen Henderson’s 3-year-old daughter complained of pain while using the bathroom, doctors brushed it off as a urinary tract infection or constipation, common maladies in the potty-training ...

Medi-Cal’s annual spending now stands at $157 billion, serving about 15 million low-income residents, more than a third of Californians. Of those, about 1.5 million are immigrants living in the U.S.

Proposition 35, which would use revenue from a tax on managed-care plans to raise the pay of health care providers who serve Medi-Cal patients, has united a broad swath of California’s health care, ...