Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: Health care policy continues to fuel political controversy, and journalists are playing an important role in providing data and evidence to counteract misinformation.

A large group of San Diego physicians is making progress against the opioid epidemic by educating prescribers and patients about ways to change longstanding practices.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: In the US, black women die during pregnancy and childbirth at a rate more than triple that of white women. Maternal mortality isn't just a women's rights issue — it's a human rights issue.

Close is not good enough for the three million Californians who remain without coverage and access to care. For them, we must keep up the fight to cross the finish line.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: As our country grapples with the implications of the Trump administration’s separation of immigrant children from their parents, we must consider the potential damage being done.

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: 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.