Also this week: Early window key for tackling long-term health inequities, and disparities in orthopedics affect everything from outpatient visits to post-surgery outcomes.
Health Equity & Social Justice
New database tracks how 10s of millions in opioid settlement dollars are being spent in Pennsylvania
A new database from Spotlight PA makes it easier to track how Pennsylvania counties are spending tens of millions from their first rounds of opioid settlement payments.
Why are so many seniors in Central California's San Louis Obispo County facing homelessness in 2024? The first in a three-part series.
While anyone can develop dementia, the disease affects African Americans at significantly higher rates than whites.
An early look at how the election may reshape U.S. health policy under Trump, from Medicaid to abortion to major changes at federal agencies.
Also this week: Studies find birth weight impacts infant mortality more than physician's race; and transgender youth "highly satisfied" with gender-affirming care.
A reporting team turns to makes use of silicone wristbands that can detect up to 75 types of pesticides to gauge farmworkers' exposure to toxic chemicals.
A laundromat in Smith River became a crucial entry point for reporting on undocumented farmworkers' health care access in California's rural north.
Also this week: A sharp contrast on health equity in the presidential election, and California will now report Indigenous Latino health data.
Black men are twice as likely to be diagnosed and die from prostate cancer compared to white men, a fact that hits close to home for columnist James Causey.