In 2018, health tech start-ups raised nearly $400 million in funding for technology investments related to behavioral health. In what areas are innovators making genuine progress?

At an Oakland clinic, patients who once lived on the streets are helping to improve care for the unsheltered.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: For the first time since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, a key Census Bureau survey found the number of uninsured Americans has increased.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: After being widely criticized, the Trump administration has partially backtracked on its decision to stop protecting immigrants from deportation while they receive lifesaving medical care. However, the future of the medical deferred action program remains uncertain.

The innovation opportunity in California and across the nation is huge, with one in five Americans enrolled in a state Medicaid program.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: America's struggle with race relations — including in health care — inspired an extraordinary effort by the New York Times Magazine to tell a four-century saga in ways that explain the challenges facing contemporary society.

Health care leaders need to be able to engage a diversity of perspectives in healthy and respectful dialogue in order to achieve meaningful progress.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Hollywood, Health & Society, a program of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, provides writers and producers of films and TV shows with free and accurate resources on health.

The government has finalized immigration restrictions, creating a preference for wealthy, English-speaking, insured, and educated immigrants, while erecting hurdles for immigrants who are poor. 

A new research project is exploring how Californians in the safety net experience their health care and what they hope to get out of their encounters.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: A new study suggests that the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion reduced death rates among older adults with low incomes.

America has the power to prevent gun deaths. But only if our government — and specifically, our federal government — has the courage and humanity to act.

California is one of 22 states that do not permit nurse practitioners to practice and prescribe without ongoing physician oversight. Journalist Heather Stringer traveled to Colorado to see how nurse practitioners are being deployed in two rural communities.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Innovative peer counseling is expanding access to mental health services and meeting patients where they are with culturally competent care.

Newborn care experts in Humboldt County are changing the way they treat babies born with opioid dependence. The babies spend less time in the hospital and receive less medication.