How Waco is working together to improve families' education, finances and health.
Medical professionals and researchers have long studied the effect of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and lifelong mental health and addiction. Now awareness is growing of the link between childhood trauma on long-term physical health.
Do you live near an oil or gas production facility in Southern California? Look up your neighborhood here.
A data journalism project turns into a lesson in how even data from authoritative sources can be misleading.
This story was produced as part of a project for the 2017 California Data Fellowship, a program of the USC Center for Health Journalism.
Local politicians have long tried to find ways to better serve residents of this poorer, unincorporated section of Sonoma. Two reporters are now asking whether annexation can improve health.
When neighborhoods change, it doesn’t just affect long-term residents’ housing options. It might be making them sick.
In the final installment of their series “Re-connecting with a Healthy Lifestyle,” Antonia Gonzales and Sarah Gustavus examine the role of farming and traditional foods in increasing access to fresh produce in Native American communities.
In his farewell post for the Antidote blog, veteran health care journalist Bill Heisel urges fellow journalists to adopt a posture of humility in the face of the vast, complex field that is health and health care.
Antonia Gonzales and Sarah Gustavus traveled to the Navajo Nation recently to examine how a lack of access to water in many homes influences beverage choices and what might be done to increase water consumption among young people.
