The Health Divide: Inequities affect COVID booster effort, Medicaid enrollees, and women with cancer
As COVID booster rollouts continue, concerns arise over vulnerable groups missing out on protection.
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The private organizations – many of them honoring fallen athletes – are assisting schools directly, but donations haven't been keeping up with demand.
Uncovering Berkeley's post-pandemic homeless crisis: Overdoses, grassroots efforts, and the quest for solutions.
Mistrust, misinformation, and historical inequities all contribute to vaccine hesitancy in many communities of color.
A reporter asks why students in East Palo Alto miss so much school. Taking steps to make sure sources were comfortable proved key.
Years of covering the dialysis industry taught me a lot. Aside from understanding more obscure Medicare laws than I ever imagined imaginable, I also knew what it was like to require dialysis.
Supervisor Matt Dorsey received backlash this month for asking the mayor to redirect the entire $18.9 million in city funding budgeted for a new drop-in addiction treatment center toward jails instead.
Also, this week: Mental health issues in maternal care, stroke treatment disparities, and health care inequalities.
A reporter investigates why agencies tasked with protecting tenants fall short.
The 88 shootings by LASD in Compton is more than just a statistic. The people who were shot at, wounded, or killed have families and communities who have continued to face the effects of the trauma of the incident, both mentally and physically.