Domestic violence often goes unspoken in Asian communities, where stigma, family dynamics, immigration status and lack of culturally responsive services make it difficult to seek help. But community groups can provide crucial networks of support.
Race and Equity
Reporting has shown that African Americans and Latinos are killed at a disproportionately higher rate during such pursuits.
In her new book, journalist Shoshana Walter revelas how many programs exploit patients, bar mothers, underuse buprenorphine, and worsen racial and gender disparities.
A reporter grapples with the lack of progress in fixing the health and safety problems faced by rural students and staff in Alaska's public school system.
Hepatitis B cases and deaths declined since 2021, but rates remain above national average. Advocates are urging routine screening, vaccination and annual reporting.
Cancer has touched Roy Johnson’s life deeply — losing family to it, fighting it himself, and now urging awareness while sharing his journey with prostate cancer.
People walking and biking on Watsonville streets die at a rate 70% higher than the county average, according to a Santa Cruz Local analysis.
The embrace of doula support even in Republican-led states is colliding with sweeping federal cuts to health care, public health and research on health disparities.
The Health Divide: Measles cases have hit a three-decade high, and not everyone is equally protected
Measles cases are at their highest numbers in decades amid declining vaccinations, persistent disparities and vaccine misinformation, leaving millions of children vulnerable.
Native youth in California face the state's highest suicide rates despite being its smallest ethnic group. Now Medicaid cuts threaten vital Indigenous clinics offering culturally rooted mental health care.