Martha Santana-Chin, hija de inmigrantes mexicanos, creció con Medi-Cal, la versión californiana de Medicaid, el programa de ...

Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii, Kansas, and North Dakota — reported fewer fatal outcomes tied to drug overdoses from August 2024 to August 2025, data indicate. Other lifestyle and wellness news looks at ...

The newly signed bill reverses an Obama-era provision aimed at reducing children's consumption of saturated fats to slow obesity and boost health. The change could take effect as soon as this fall.

The vast majority of people on transplant waiting lists need a kidney, AP reported. An analysis of federal data found that 116 fewer kidney transplants were performed in 2025 than the year before. The ...

In a push to prevent countertop cutters' deaths, California is discussing whether to ban the cutting of so-called engineered stone, quartz, which emits the lung-damaging dust when cut. But at least ...

The Senate health committee convened Wednesday to discuss the safety of telehealth prescribing of the abortion pill. Also: Senate negotiations on expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies might get ...

Affiliates of the California-based health care provider have agreed to pay $556 million to settle claims that KP bilked Medicare by bumping up diagnoses to reap more reimbursements. Plus: The United ...

Native American women face higher rates of death than other demographics. In response, Native Americans have been working ...

Chin, a daughter of Mexican immigrants, last year took the helm of L.A. Care, the nation’s largest publicly operated health plan. She warns that looming federal cuts will push up to 650,000 people off ...

Bloomberg reports that employees of the agency — which conducts and supports research on workplace safety and health — were informed that their layoff notices were "hereby revoked." Other ...

The Health and Human Services secretary has appointed to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices two doctors with histories of publicly questioning the safety of vaccines. HHS also told a ...

In most states, tomorrow is the deadline to enroll in an Obamacare plan, although a handful of states have delayed it until later in January. Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio told The Hill that ...