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The Health Divide
Why doesn’t California have more Latino doctors?
August 18, 2022
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Latinos make up 39% of the state’s population but 5% of physicians and surgeons. A young doctor hopes to close the gap.
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Remaking Health Care
How we pay doctors and hospitals is an overlooked driver of health disparities in this country
August 16, 2022
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The move in health care to value-based payments has not solved racial health disparities. In some cases, it's even made them worse.
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Remaking Health Care
The new bill just passed by Congress is a huge victory for those fighting for affordable drugs
August 15, 2022
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The Inflation Reduction Act permits Medicare to negotiate drug prices. Here's why the legislation is such a big deal for seniors.
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Investigating Health
SF is spending big on homelessness. But I wanted to know where the money is going.
August 09, 2022
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Where was all this money going? Partly into no-bid contracts.
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The Coronavirus Files
Coronavirus Files: New school guidelines are coming, and Feds take on long COVID
August 08, 2022
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Also, disparities in booster access spell trouble for fall booster campaigns.
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Investigating Health
How reporters exposed abuse at residential programs where California sent troubled youth
August 05, 2022
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A data-driven series ushers in quick changes to California's reliance on an out-of-state youth residential treatment program.
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Children's Health Matters
Monkeypox case in a California toddler is a reminder that viruses don’t discriminate
August 03, 2022
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“It can happen to anybody. It doesn’t care about your age, your race or orientation. Just look at my kids.”
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The Coronavirus Files
Coronavirus Files: Boosters coming in September, while inoculation of youngest kids stagnates
July 29, 2022
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Also, Biden extends pandemic rescue funds for affordable housing, while a White House summit plans for future COVID vaccines.
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Remaking Health Care
The Senate is set to take historic action to curb runaway costs for prescription drugs
July 27, 2022
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A bill expected to pass would prevent price gouging and limit how much older Americans must pay for medicine.
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Children's Health Matters
College students are struggling. Are schools doing enough to help?
July 26, 2022
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“One of my clients called me crying because she couldn’t even find the campus counseling center.”
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Center for Health Journalism Fellowships Posts
Evictions are rising in Connecticut. What does it mean for the mental health of kids?
July 25, 2022
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As the number of evictions rises, a new reporting project will look at the mental health effects for children in Connecticut.
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The Coronavirus Files
Coronavirus Files: Mask mandates back in the news; Novavax gets CDC green light
July 25, 2022
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Marginalized children missing out on vaccines in Sunshine State; mask mandates become a local issue; and yes, the COVID vaccine could affect your period.
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Center for Health Journalism Fellowships Posts
Project takes fresh look at the changing landscape of abortion rights along the U.S- Mexico border
July 22, 2022
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Before the overturn of Roe v. Wade, Southern Texas was already an abortion desert.
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Center for Health Journalism Fellowships Posts
What happens when dialysis patients are denied treatment after being ‘involuntarily discharged’?
July 22, 2022
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Thomas Alba attended his thrice-weekly dialysis sessions for more than a decade before receiving what physicians term an "involuntary discharge."
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Center for Health Journalism Fellowships Posts
What are the causes and consequences of Mississippi’s rampant evictions?
July 21, 2022
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A growing population of unhoused Mississippians are caught in limbo between the legally accepted definition of homelessness and stable housing.

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