Sharp Seeks Prompt Payment From Cash-Strapped Palomar: Palomar Health faces a demand from Sharp HealthCare to immediately repay $26 million — the principal and interest on a loan — or face a lawsuit ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a suite of privacy protection bills for transgender patients amid continuing threats by the Trump administration. This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be ...

Olivia Owlett, one of four residents in the inaugural class of Healthy Rural California's family medicine residency program in Chico. She was drawn to the region in large part because its health care ...

Neeta Thakur, a University of California-San Francisco professor and a doctor, is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration over canceled research grants.

Police officers evacuate a senior from her home during the Eaton Fire in Altadena on Jan. 8. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images) In the wake of January’s deadly wildfires, Los Angeles County leaders are ...

Republican efforts to restrict taxes on hospitals, health plans, and other providers that states use to help fund their Medicaid programs could strip them of tens of billions of dollars. The move ...

Florence Owens, an In-Home Supportive Services aide, brings Carol Crooks her morning coffee in Oakland. Proposed Medicaid cuts could endanger funding for aides such as Owens. (Ronnie Cohen for KFF ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference on April 16 in Ceres, near Modesto. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t expect to be reckoning with ...

President Donald Trump delivers remarks before signing an executive order on expanding access to in vitro fertilization at his Mar-a-Lago resort on February 18. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) For nearly ...

SACRAMENTO — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as ...

Eboni Tomasek expected to take home her newborn the day after he was born in a San Jose hospital. But, without explanation, hospital staff said they needed to stay a second night. Then a third. A ...

Graduates of the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons during Columbia University's commencement convocation on May 17, 2023. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Trump administration’s ...