Stigma leaves many without the products or knowledge they need to maintain a healthy period, a new reporting project finds.
Financial distress is leading some immigrants into lives as professional guinea pigs.
The challenge: Proving that health tech companies can make a viable business out of reaching low-income people who also face social challenges.
The San Diego Union-Tribune is putting a spotlight on the real cost of child care in California.
By Amber Dance
Also this week: Latino teens take the lead in vaccine education, and fresh signs the tripledemic is on the wane.
A new commercial tax aims to do something novel in California: provide child care financial aid for middle-class families and set a minimum wage of $28 an hour for early education teachers.
By Dave Boucher
Publishing shorter pieces on a regular basis helped keep sustained attention on the issue.
The patients who need these potentially lifesaving services the most can’t always get them.
In its announcement that Rochester's trees should be protected, the Landmark Society of Western New York's cited a Democrat and Chronicle 2022 series on the topic.
By Amber Dance
In other news, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis takes aim at vaccine and mask mandates.
A reporter learns the importance of telling stories for communities rather than about them.