After records requests were denied, a reporter used lawsuits and monitor reports to expose severe understaffing and failures in Illinois' prison health care — despite a court-ordered consent decree.

Han Sung-hyun / 63, Korean resident at a homeless shelter “I was told I was terminally ill. They said I had three months to ...

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

The first time a white person used the N-word against me was in fourth grade, and 49 years later, I still remember it clearly. It happened during recess in late January 1977, while some of us were ...

When Nibedita was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 40, she did not tell her mother or her mother-in-law, who lived in India. That decision, made from love, isolated her. Both women, beloved ...

For more than 20 years, Adela León, originally from Putla in Oaxaca, Mexico, has worked in agricultural fields across Washington State and California’s Central Valley. “In grapes, peaches, apricots, ...

Every moment in sports has become a wager, and not just on who will win the Super Bowl or how many strikeouts a pitcher will throw. With a quick tap on your phone, you can bet on what color Gatorade ...

When Gloria Caballero, 52, started experiencing knee pain four years ago, her sister in Los Angeles suggested a natural remedy that a coworker had sworn by: a supplement called Artri King. Following ...

Before she publishes a story on domestic violence, journalist Sammy Caiola calls sources to review the information she plans on including. Sometimes, survivors ask her to remove facts, since their ...

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 ...

At his day job, Harpreet Singh Pannu is a physician specializing in internal medicine at Kaiser Permanente facilities in San Jose and Santa Clara. But on Sundays, at his sangat (congregation), Pannu ...

When Heather Muriel Nguyen first identified as non-binary and asexual, it wasn’t just a declaration of identity, it was an act of self-advocacy in a culture where queerness is often silenced. Now a ...