The late chef, author, and television personality Anthony Bourdain, who recovered from heroin addiction in the 1980s, used his global platform to educate the public about the opioid crisis.

The Affordable Care Act wars have reignited, thanks to a surprising assault on the law's popular protections for people with pre-existing conditions.

Annual spending on health care in the US has crossed the $10,000 per-person threshold, reminding us to reflect on health care’s unprecedented claim on our resources — and why we should be concerned about it.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Health care journalists delve into the complicated challenge of helping rural hospitals survive in a hostile financial environment.

For people with low incomes or who are covered by Medi-Cal, palliative care programs must attend to a host of issues that patients with economic resources don't face.

The Trump administration signaled plans to make it harder for immigrants to enter the country and to reduce access to a broad range of health and human service safety net programs for immigrants already living here, including US citizen children.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: For those who have spent months, years, or decades away from their communities in prison or military service, it can be daunting — even deadly — to make the transition back into civilian society and access the health care services they need.

CEO Amy Shin of nonprofit Health Plan of San Joaquin started her job with a frantic first year of financial damage control, and now the plan is running with a higher level of sophistication and nearly $1 billion in annual revenue.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: As providers adopt new technologies, the debate over high-tech health care delivery has intensified. What does the future hold?

A woman living in rural California talks about how technology helped her overcome her community's shortage of mental health practitioners to get counseling that put her life back on track. Watch the video and hear Jill's story.

A new form of care has taken hold in forward-looking emergency medical services agencies: community paramedicine. Across California, community paramedics in locally designed pilot projects are demonstrating different ways to prevent emergencies and connect people to the right care at the right time.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: In a use of technology in health care that may surprise some, the online review platform Yelp is helping more consumers find quality nursing homes.

Despite federal efforts to eliminate cost-sharing subsidies and weaken the Affordable Care Act’s individual coverage, Covered California enrollment continued to rise in 2018.

In emergency rooms, people with opioid addiction are usually treated for their symptoms and referred to addiction treatment providers. Imagine instead if those patients were treated on the spot for the underlying disease of addiction.

The population of seniors is growing rapidly while the physician supply shrinks — especially among primary care doctors and geriatricians. Many health care organizations are exploring a surprising solution: old-fashioned house calls mixed with new technology.