Kellie Schmitt

A report shows California's Medi-Cal dental program still struggles, with fewer kids seeing dentists. Disparities in heart health, OB-GYN training, and telehealth access also persist across groups.

Also this week: Fresh reporting puts a spotlight on how AI can both perpetuate and avoid embedded biases in health care.

Nearly 30 years ago, the O.J. Simpson trial cast a bright spotlight on the issue of domestic violence as court proceedings garnered unprecedented levels of coverage.

“Don’t force what you think the story is going to be on the community,” jouranlist Zaydee Sanchez told fellow reporters. “Allow the community to tell you where they’re at.”

San Diego reporter Lisa Halverstadt and Seattle-based journalist Will James joined Brett Feldman, director of USC Street Medicine, this week to discuss recent policy shifts and how reporters can cover the urgent story of homelessness and mental health.

A powerful series on child abandonment illustrates three key ingredients of stories that make a difference.

Author urges journalists to give voice to the experiences of young people as they struggle to recover from the crisis.

Stanford's Maya Rossin-Slater unpacks her team's landmark study, which finds even rich Black mothers are more likely to have worse birth outcomes than their white counterparts.

“I’ve always felt that mental health has never been important to newspapers, to society,” Wan told fellow reporters this week. His stories are trying to change that.