This article was produced as a project for the 2021 Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund at USC's Annenberg Center for Health Journalism....
Healthcare Regulation and Reform
In the midst of a cancer diagnosis, Uma found the courage to leave the relationship.
LA Times reporter Sonja Sharp shares "three things I wish nondisabled parents would learn from disabled parents like us."
Imagine taking your kids on a trolley to visit the neighborhood park. Now, picture an electric transit system that’s fast and cheap and can take you to work right from your doorstep. What if Fresno could do all that, and reduce the local rate of childhood asthma?
Emily DeRuy reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 California Fellowship.
Other work by her includes:
COVID forced Bay Area families to make agonizing elder-care decisions. Is there a fix?
Getting older doesn’t have to be scary. Things to con
Though disabled women now get pregnant and give birth at the same rate as nondisabled ones, modern medicine has largely turned its back on them.
"If everybody in this community were vaccinated, we would have one person in the ICU. One," Marian Regional pulmonologist Zacharia Reagle said.
If drug price negotiation fails, Democrats lose funding for much of their current health care plans.
Birthing parents report isolation during the pandemic and stress after the closure of the labor and delivery center in Fort Bragg last year, revealing strains on maternal healthcare in Mendocino County.
Unhoused people are reversing overdoses and saving lives on the street, but these efforts aren’t showing up in official counts.