Insurance denials hit many Americans, but marginalized and sicker patients suffer most because appeals are complex, delaying ...

San Francisco's budget cuts threaten HIV prevention services serving the city's Latine immigrant community.San Francisco's ...

Veronica Granados, a 49-year-old immigrant originally from Guanajuato, Mexico will be able to receive Medi-Cal for the first time. On Monday, California became the first state in the nation to offer ...

In 1988, on the streets of Chinatown in Los Angeles, about 200 Chinese seniors gathered in front of a 16-story modern building, holding up signs and protesting their living conditions. One of their ...

Lottie L. Joiner, a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer, wrote this story while participating in the National Health Journalism Fellowship, a program of the University of Southern California’s ...

After testing nearly 70 homes, a Dispatch team exposed Ohio’s hidden radon threat, prompting state and local action.

CROW RESERVATION — When doctors in Billings told Ursula Rides Horse-Russell she had Stage 2 breast cancer, her mind went blank. She had buried her 34-year-old son two days earlier. She couldn’t ...

The rapid expansion of supersize data centers to power AI may not seem like a big story for health journalists. The growing public backlash has focused on the environmental impact: the massive use of ...

"Why do people put their parents in nursing homes when there are so many problems in them?" It was not the first time my mom had asked this question. This time, it came after yet another report of an ...

Three months after receiving a clean bill of health from her cardiologist, marathon runner Dawn Roberts was participating in a 5K with her son when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her chest. “It was ...

South Dakota is one of the most sparsely populated states in the nation, which puts many remote residents at the mercy of the open road and a strained rural health care system in order to maintain ...