Han Sung-hyun / 63, Korean resident at a homeless shelter in LA Koreatown “I was staying at a sauna and working, but once I ...

Insurance denials hit many Americans, but marginalized and sicker patients suffer most because appeals are complex, delaying ...

Renatto Guerrero has lived with HIV for 15 years. “It was three days before I turned 33, and I didn’t know much about it. The first things that came to mind were fatalistic thoughts: what’s going to ...

As 16-year-old Lily Martinez was heading home from her job at the local hospital this summer, her mother called urgently and told her not to come home, instructing her to go to a friend’s house ...

Veronica Granados, a 49-year-old immigrant originally from Guanajuato, Mexico will be able to receive Medi-Cal for the first time. On Monday, California became the first state in the nation to offer ...

Lottie L. Joiner, a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer, wrote this story while participating in the National Health Journalism Fellowship, a program of the University of Southern California’s ...

In 1988, on the streets of Chinatown in Los Angeles, about 200 Chinese seniors gathered in front of a 16-story modern building, holding up signs and protesting their living conditions. One of their ...

After testing nearly 70 homes, a Dispatch team exposed Ohio’s hidden radon threat, prompting state and local action.

The rapid expansion of supersize data centers to power AI may not seem like a big story for health journalists. The growing public backlash has focused on the environmental impact: the massive use of ...

Witnessing abuse carries the same risk of harm to children's mental health and learning as if the children had been abused directly, new research shows. SAVANNAH, Ga. – Latrelle Huff says her twins ...

"Why do people put their parents in nursing homes when there are so many problems in them?" It was not the first time my mom had asked this question. This time, it came after yet another report of an ...