About four years ago, Dr. Gene Dorio sat on the ethics committee of a Southern California hospital whose administrators insisted they could decide whether to disconnect a ventilator from an ...

Disability rights advocates sued Tuesday to overturn California’s physician-assisted death law, arguing that recent changes make it too easy for people with terminal diseases whose deaths aren’t ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference on April 16 in Ceres, near Modesto. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t expect to be reckoning with ...

It can be republished for free. Celebrity hotel heiress Paris Hilton is backing California lawmakers’ push to increase the transparency of residential teen therapeutic centers by requiring these ...

Graduates of the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons during Columbia University's commencement convocation on May 17, 2023. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Trump administration’s ...

Nurse Brittany Harding helps Elizabeth Finhill, of Altavista, Virginia, with her ketamine treatment at MindPeace Clinic in Richmond, Virginia, on July 5, 2022. There are now more than 500 ketamine ...

Along a section of the Los Angeles River that runs between Interstate 5 and the neighborhood Atwater Village, camping tents inhabited by homeless people pop up on islets in the middle of the concrete ...

This story also ran on The Sacramento Bee. It can be republished for free. Patients hurl verbal abuse at Michelle Ravera every day in the emergency room. Physical violence is less common, she said, ...

Sean Brown, recovering from methamphetamine addiction, lost his housing in the Eaton Fire in January. “I had nothing but the clothes on my back. It just brought back all of those feelings of being ...

Aniya was ready to leave. She was dressed in a fuzzy white onesie her mother had packed for her first trip home. Yet Aniya’s family had more questions than answers as they cradled the newborn out of ...

[Editor’s note: KHN, which produces California Healthline, is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.] California lawmakers have approved a controversial no-bid statewide Medi-Cal contract for HMO ...

Sky Contreras grabs a blood tube — a tool used to test people for infectious diseases like HIV — in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. (Vanessa G. Sánchez/KFF Health News) SAN FRANCISCO — ...