The health care sector has accounted for nearly half of this year’s U.S. job growth. But economists say immigration ...

Despite billions of tax dollars and two decades of effort invested in improving health care data sharing, Americans’ medical ...

In a rural, largely Republican region of California, homegrown efforts to bolster the medical workforce face an uphill battle ...

Farmworkers With Disabilities Win Case Against Carrot Grower: A federal court ruled a San Joaquin Valley carrot company engaged in discriminatory practices against farmworkers with disabilities. The ...

Hospital Will Close ED Sooner Than Planned: Willows-based Glenn Medical Center is fast-tracking the planned closure of its emergency department due to staffing shortages, according to a Sept. 22 ...

Residents of Surprise Valley, in the state’s northeastern corner, voted to sell its hospital to a businessman with a controversial plan to bring in revenue. Its dismal financial plight exemplifies the ...

California Again Has America's Highest Poverty Rate: California continued to have the highest poverty rate in the nation last year at 17.7%, tied only with Louisiana, according to new data from the ...

Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, appears on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 14. His agency is scouring Medicaid payments for immigrants without permanent legal ...

Statewide Covid Cases Jump: California is seeing a sharp rise in covid infections. Hospitalizations have nearly doubled in the past month, and wastewater data show “very high” levels of the virus ...

Critics of affirmative action have launched a long-shot appeal aimed at stopping California from requiring training on unconscious bias in every continuing medical education class. This story also ran ...

LA County Child Dies Of Measles Complications Years After Illness: A school-age child has died from a rare complication of measles after contracting the disease in infancy, public health officials ...

California Counties Feel Sting Of Funding Cuts: Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia doesn’t see a way around the most vulnerable residents in his community soon facing longer wait times for food ...