Republican proposals to tighten the use of special taxes to fund Medicaid programs could deprive states of billions of ...

California Democrats Reject Newsom's Deep Budget Cuts: California legislative leaders announced Monday that they reached a budget proposal to address the state’s $12 billion expected deficit, leaning ...

SACRAMENTO — Nearly three years after California started fining residents who don’t have health insurance, the state has not distributed any of the revenue it has collected, KHN has learned — money ...

SACRAMENTO — Californians will decide in November whether to lock the right to abortion into the state constitution. This story also ran on CBS News. It can be republished for free. If they vote “yes” ...

Would you rather be buried or cremated when you die? If you feel the way I do, the answer is neither. I cringe at the thought of my body burning up at well over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit or being ...

SACRAMENTO — Sonja Verdugo lost her husband to an opioid overdose last year. She regularly delivers medical supplies to people using drugs who are living — and dying — on the streets of Los Angeles.

Disability rights advocates sued Tuesday to overturn California’s physician-assisted death law, arguing that recent changes make it too easy for people with terminal diseases whose deaths aren’t ...

The Daily Edition will not be published Thursday in observance of Juneteenth. Look for it again in your inbox on Friday. Below, check out the roundup of California Healthline’s coverage. For today's ...

Nurse Laura Johnson administers a dose of the HPV vaccine to Abby Major, 13, at an Illinois health clinic. A California lawmaker wants all incoming college students to get an HPV vaccine, as part of a ...

After rejecting proposed rules to protect millions of workers in sweltering warehouses, steamy kitchens, and other hot workplaces, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has offered a ...

OAKLAND — The red-tipped bullet pierces skin and melts into it, Javier Velasquez Lopez explains. The green-tipped bullet penetrates armored vests. And the hollow-tipped bullet expands as it tears ...

It can be republished for free. Celebrity hotel heiress Paris Hilton is backing California lawmakers’ push to increase the transparency of residential teen therapeutic centers by requiring these ...