Stories That Caught Our Attention: Recent data on overdose deaths and substance use paint a grim picture of what the COVID-19 pandemic year has been like for people who are predisposed to substance use.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The nation's beleaguered public health workforce is looking forward to help from the American Rescue Plan Act.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Black Maternal Health Week called attention to the need for implicit bias training paired with policy changes to advance Black birth equity.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Up to 30% of people who were infected with COVID-19 have had to cope with persistent symptoms from so-called 'long Covid.'

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Researchers were stunned by the data they found.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: US hospitals have been slow to comply with the disclosure regime that was implemented on January 1.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The mental health effects of economic instability can be countered by supportive economic policies, according to new research.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: As Native American communities see their relatives die in disproportionate numbers, they worry that these losses are not being fully recognized by a state data system that is misclassifying Native Americans as Latinx or multiracial.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Lack of housing is "unignorable" and puts responsibility squarely into the hands of health care practitioners, physician experts say.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Springtime optimism in California's agricultural heart has been tempered somewhat by concerns about the challenge of vaccinating farmworkers before the next harvest season.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The federal government plans to send California 380,000 doses of the new COVID-19 vaccine this week.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Health care providers, working through unimaginable tragedies and unprecedented circumstances because of COVID-19, have little time to devote to their own mental health or well-being.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: The state's plans to vaccinate every Californian over age 16 has been buffeted by complex problems.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Overcrowded housing, large essential industries, and an ill-prepared health care system are blamed for the staggering COVID-19 surge in LA.

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith — clinician, researcher, and academic leader at Yale School of Medicine — will lead President Joe Biden's White House COVID-19 equity task force.