This article was produced as a project for the USC Center for Health Journalism’s California Fellowship.
Community & Public Health
ER visits grew an average of 4 percent every year from 2010 to 2016.
How does exposure to violence affect innocent young bystanders? What lasting damage does it cause? The Times-Picayune debuts an ambitous new series.
The legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act roared back to life last week, when the U.S. Justice Department announced it would no longer defend crucial parts of the law against a suit filed by Texas and 19 other conservative states. The Trump administration argues that the individual mandate and
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The disaster has been made worse by the number of residents suffering from chronic illnesses and a shortage of doctors.
The expansion of Medicaid has been key to getting more homeless people permanently housed in Los Angeles and beyond.
Momentum is building to get emergency departments to play a bigger role in stemming the epidemic.
The Trump administration's recent efforts to shrink the social safety net will only make treating the real drivers of health harder.
Over the course of a week in March, Los Angeles stand-up comic and life coach Kate Romero opened up to KPCC about the pain she feels from degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia.