Eight months after the Feb. 14 shooting, people wounded at the Kansas City Chiefs parade are wary of more gun violence. In ...

Uber and Lyft have become a critical part of the nation’s infrastructure for transporting ailing people from their homes — ...

The Biden administration has taken significant steps to address a problem that burdens 100 million people in America, but ...

This legislative cycle, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills affirming reproductive rights and mandating insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization, but the Democrat was reluctant to impose new ...

Small-town doctors may not offer IUDs and hormonal implants because the devices require training to administer and are expensive to stock.

In a health care system that assumes older adults have family caregivers to help them, those facing dementia by themselves ...

California legislators for years have granted extensions on a 1994 law requiring hospitals to retrofit their buildings to ...

For decades, the pulse oximeters used in hospitals, ambulances, and homes have underestimated the oxygen needs of ...

Members of the House and Senate have proposed legislation “to prohibit the distribution and sale of contaminated poppy seeds ...

Californians in November will weigh in on a ballot initiative to increase scrutiny over the use of health-care dollars — ...

At age 66, South Carolina physician Paul Rousseau decided to retire after tending for decades to the suffering of people who ...

While hot-button health care issues such as abortion and the Affordable Care Act roil the presidential race, Democrats and ...