Parents can feel hopeless when they enter the child welfare system. And things get complicated when California steps in to play parent.
Children & Families
Rural regions across the country are facing a growing wave of hospital closures, shutterings that can pose huge burdens for those in need of urgent care — and can be a matter of life-or-death in emergencies. Hospital closures come as rural America confronts a series of health crises that go beyond t
Becoming a new mom is stressful for the best-prepared women; struggling with addiction on top of that can lead to danger for them both.
Over the decade from 2008 to 2017, as the opioid epidemic took hold, the number of drug-exposed infants born per year nearly tripled in California
Without an identified cause, developing new treatments and preventive strategies for the rare condition has been difficult. Families and researchers are calling for more funding and attention.
Day after day, we listened to families’ stories. And we hoped to God that we told them in a way that made others care.
When the "crack baby epidemic" of the 1980s and '90s was raging, many experts offered stark, long-term forecasts. While those were overblown, there still is cause for concern.
This series was produced with the support of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund.
A reporter set out to discover why trauma rates were so high in the community of Paradise, Calif. Then the deadliest wildfire in state history destroyed the town.
These are some questions and answers about what city, state, and school officials have accomplished in the wake of the Inquirer’s “Toxic City” investigation, and some shortfalls that remain.
Today, nearly 37 years later, the call seems exceptionally ordinary: Investigate a noise complaint from a resident at an apartment building at North 10th and West Walnut streets.
James E. Causey’s reporting on this project was completed with the support of a USC Annenberg Center for H