You can’t cheat time,” said Phil Wesseler, a paramedic in Mono County who has witnessed the devastating impact of opioid use ...

Photo by ugurhan/iStock When I heard the news about President Trump imposing tariffs on almost everything that isn’t made in the U.S., the first thing I did was check the packaging on my son’s medical ...

Three months later, LA city and county leaders are struggling to expedite debris cleaning that would allow rebuilding to begin. For displaced families with children who have disabilities, starting ...

A participant shares her experiences during a Sisters Rise Circle gathering. Called the Sisters Rise Circle, the gathering is one of about a dozen circles run by Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, ...

For people with existing cardiovascular conditions such as heart failure, arrhythmias and cardiomyopathy, symptoms are often exacerbated during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum, making ...

Most domestic violence interventions focus on helping survivors, often requiring them and sometimes their children to upend their lives by seeking shelter and safety. Far fewer resources are dedicated ...

As human beings, we speak and understand stories a lot better than we do laws and policies. That’s as true for regular families as it is for the politicians who make the rules. The programs that are ...

Author Devon Gaster leads a Men Creating Peace class in San Leandro in 2019. Photo by Ray Casarez I sat in a tiny, crowded cell at the San Francisco County Jail, contemplating how I had ended up there ...

All Nirmal Singh and his wife, Daljit Kaur, wanted were a few groceries from Walmart. But as the older couple drove in circles around the suddenly unfamiliar streets of Fresno, Singh feared they’d be ...

In many Asian Americans communities, reluctance to seek mental health care is common. A 2007 study found that less than 9 percent of Asian-Americans sought any type of mental health services compared ...

Having trouble getting a medical appointment? Here’s what to do California law requires health plans to provide timely access to care. In general, that means you should be able to get an appointment: ...