Stomach Virus Circulating Among Wildfire Evacuees: Health officials confirmed Thursday that a stomach bug is circulating among people at the wildfire evacuation center in Pasadena. They have been ...

First Covid, Now Wildfires: California Teens Say Their Mental Health Is Suffering: The disaster has again disrupted the education and nutrition of thousands of children. In Pasadena alone, five school ...

Daniel Chang, Florida correspondent, covers Florida and the South. He joined KFF Health News in 2022 after 22 years at the Miami Herald, where his health care reporting focused on access to care for ...

“Certificate of need” laws, largely supported by the hospital industry, limit health facility construction in 35 states and Washington, D.C. Georgia lawmakers decided its law was complicating the ...

California has a few major changes coming to its health policy landscape in 2025. New laws that took effect Jan. 1 ban ...

Judith Graham, a contributing columnist, writes the “Navigating Aging” column for KFF Health News. She has covered health care for more than 30 years. She’s been an investigative reporter, national ...

From the archives of “An Arm and a Leg”: a family tragedy, a 40-year tradition, and a million dollars in medical debt erased.

Jessie Mazar squeezed the grab handle in her husband’s pickup and groaned as contractions struck her during the 90-minute drive from her home in rural northeastern California to the closest hospital ...

Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is the state’s health insurance program for Californians with low incomes, including children, people with disabilities, and seniors. Get the latest data on ...