Flu Deaths Surpass Covid Deaths In California: More people are dying from flu than from covid this winter for the first time since the novel coronavirus started flooding emergency rooms in 2020. At ...

Mental health workers on strike in Southern California say Kaiser Permanente is woefully understaffed, its therapists are ...

State officials say homes should be able to be cooled to a safe indoor air temperature of 82 degrees. The legislature will ...

Rosa “Rosita” Flores, a retail line supervisor at Taylor Farms in Salinas, shows the MiSalud app, which connects ...

Health leaders say a tool to boost medical coverage for Native Americans, a population that has long faced worse health outcomes than the rest of the nation, has been underused by many states and ...

President Donald Trump was sworn in Monday and by Wednesday had virtually stopped scientific policymaking at the Department of Health and Human Services. While incoming administrations often pause ...

Este método, que podría llegar a tener gran utilidad en la era de los teléfonos inteligentes, es una aplicación que permite efectuar consultas médicas transfronterizas.

Doxy-PEP Is Working: Fewer Gay Men In Calif. Catching Chlamydia, Syphilis: A pair of studies by San Francisco researchers found that rates for the two common STIs also fell in bisexual men and ...

Arthur Allen, senior correspondent, writes about the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry as well as topics related to covid-19. He joined KFF Health News in 2020 after six years at Politico, where he ...

Just a few years ago, children with Type 1 diabetes reported to the school nurse several times a day to get a finger pricked to check whether their blood sugar was dangerously high or low. This story ...

In the new year, California’s Medicaid program will open to otherwise eligible immigrants ages 26 to 49 without legal residency. They will join children, young adults, and adults over 50 enrolled in ...

Possible Weapon In War On Drugs Emerges: Researchers at the University of the Pacific in Stockton have discovered a new way to deliver naloxone, the chemical in Narcan that is used to combat overdoses ...