About 2% of the country’s 15,000 licensed midwives are Black. In Southern California, there are about 120 licensed midwives, but only seven of them are Black.
Poverty and Class
Many of LA County’s programs focus on addressing the consequences of intergenerational racism on the health of Black women.
In Long Beach, health officials say they’ve made progress in getting new people vaccinated in recent weeks, with a nearly 50% increase in daily doses administered.
City Reverses Decision to Remove Washing Stations from Encampments Following L.A. Taco Investigation
The city extended the program two months after a L.A. TACO investigation found that vendors failed to service units consistently, despite collecting millions of dollars in payments.
Early in the pandemic, Randolph County had the state's highest rate of Covid-19 cases. Going forward, the closest hospital would be at least a half-hour drive across the state line, in Alabama.
Will states rush to put up new Medicaid enrollment hurdles when a key federal funding boost goes away?
Researchers found, unsurprisingly, links between the absence of critical infrastructure and the spread of the virus.
As part of an 11Alive investigative series, this story examines the gaps in Georgia's system to help children with mental and developmental disabilities.
Three journalists share advice on listening to community voices and avoiding the specter of "poverty porn."
“We are still trying to understand how it manifests and how it happens,” said Dr. Emnet Gammada, a clinical geriatric neuro-psychology fellow at the UCLA Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior. “What surprises me is how much we know and how much we don’t know.”