Are stricter felony drug possession penalties effective tools for propelling users into care? One reporter's deep dive raises serious doubts.

There’s growing evidence that medicine risks losing talent from poor and working-class, Black and Latino communities.

The USC Center for Health Journalism is pleased to announce the launch of the 2026 Ethnic Media Collaborative, with a Feb.

The Center for Health Journalism is pleased to announce the selection of six California journalists who will be participating ...

Mary Otto is a former Washington Post Reporter and winner of the 2010 Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement for her reporting on dental care for the poor, she is now on sabbatical authoring a book on ...

This story was written with the support of the National Health Journalism Fellowship, a program of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism. One afternoon in November, ...

I'm a freelance health care journalist whose work focuses on helping consumers understand how to navigate the health care system, pay for health care, and make sense of health reform's impact. I also ...

Wisconsin has long ranked near the bottom of states in taking serious actions against doctors, according to Public Citizen. In the group's latest report, the state ranked 46th, up from 49th the ...

I am a freelance opinion writer and my lived experience of being incarcerated informs my work. I was the first incarcerated person to have a regular byline in a publication outside the prison. That ...

Dozens of patients have died needlessly due to errors made in Indian Health Service hospitals in South Dakota alone. Doctors pulled Kathy Boyd’s heart out of her chest. Hundreds of miles from her home ...