In North Carolina, children with severe psychiatric needs often suffer in facilities unsuited to help them. A reporter shares ...

A sharp contrast on health equity in the presidential election, and California will now report Indigenous Latino health data.

I don’t feel like there is enough coverage of just how big and pervasive the child welfare system is,” said Hager.

The pandemic changed me," said Johnson. "It showed me that having no data can be just as harmful as doing data for data’s ...

Thomas Lane was visibly sick. His clothing hung loose, his complexion seemed blanched, his vision blurred in and out. Already a slight man, he lost 45 pounds in a five-month period. More than four ...

Too many times, Anne Huebner's patients opt to use their much-needed therapy appointments to fill out disability applications. It's a daunting process, one that usually doesn't reward her patients ...

People don't get to choose the illnesses that render them too disabled to work, but insurance companies have the power to approve or deny claims based on where in the body their condition exists. It's ...

As the number of older Chinese adults in the United States grows rapidly, loneliness is expected to become an increasing public health concern in this population. Studies on the high prevalence of ...

Inside a little house in Daly City, California, Hazel Su and her friend fit twin-sized mattresses onto the floors of rooms already occupied by strangers. The women from Myanmar, in their early 20s, ...

Joyce Mayauchi Valenzuela makes a weekly 45-mile drive from Santa Clarita, California to Gardena to voluntarily bring bento box lunches to her parents and six other residents at Clearview Memory Care.