According to data published in 2021 by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI), 18,660 ...

A reporter finds many people are eager to have more conversations about menopause and its impacts, but are struggling to find the right venue.

Anxiety feels like a bomb in my stomach and every second feels like a year and nothing makes it stop,” said one young woman. ...

The embrace of doula support even in Republican-led states is colliding with sweeping federal cuts to health care, public ...

People walking and biking on Watsonville streets die at a rate 70% higher than the county average, according to a Santa Cruz Local analysis.

Native youth in California face the state's highest suicide rates despite being its smallest ethnic group. Now Medicaid cuts ...

As the fall semester quickly approaches, parents, educators, and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) continue ...

Support for Curcio’s reporting on this project also came from the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern ...

Michelle Levander is the founding director of the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism. Since she launched the Center in 2004, the ...