By TRÂN NGUYỄN | Associated Press SACRAMENTO — A pair of California lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill on Tuesday to allow people 21 and older to consume psychedelic mushrooms under …
San Mateo County recently became the first county in the country to recognize loneliness as a public health emergency. The county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last week to approve …
By Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org Gabriel Henao fled Colombia to escape a guerrilla group who, he said, twice threatened to kill him. After some time in Mexico, he arrived in Colorado …
By Todd Woody | Bloomberg Californians exposed to both extreme heat and wildfire smoke on the same day run a greater risk of hospitalization for cardiorespiratory illness than from either …
As a Black mother, Hope Williams-Burt always felt as if she had to fight to get her doctors to listen to her. One health care worker even criticized the way …
It’s taken San Francisco native Leah McKendrick some time to simply appreciate her success as the screenwriter, director and actor of “Scrambled,” the raucous film that marks her directorial debut, …
By Rae Ellen Bichell, KFF Health News Clinicians at Valley-Wide Health Systems never know who will appear at their clinic in San Luis, a town of about 600 people in …
By Elisabeth Rosenthal, KFF Health News When Kristy Uddin, 49, went in for her annual mammogram in Washington state last year, she assumed she would not incur a bill because …
A report this week is likely to add to questions about Mary Lou Retton’s claim that she couldn’t “afford” health insurance — a situation that prompted her daughters to launch …
I am 56 years young, and I have Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is a disease that is largely misunderstood — many people think of it as something that only affects the elderly …