A new care center for homeless people on Los Angeles’ infamous Skid Row embraces the principle of harm reduction, a more ...

The Daily Edition will not be published Friday or Monday in observance of July Fourth. Look for it again on Tuesday, July 8. Below, check out the roundup of California Healthline’s coverage. For today ...

Health Care Industry San Francisco Chronicle: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Workers End Strike Unionized health care workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland have ended their ...

UCSF Health To Lay Off About 200 Workers: UCSF Health will eliminate approximately 200 positions across its network, officials said Wednesday, citing “serious financial challenges” and the need to ...

California lawmakers are poised to approve a six-month delay in implementing the state’s in vitro fertilization law, pushing ...

Republican efforts to restrict taxes on hospitals, health plans, and other providers that states use to help fund their Medicaid programs could strip them of tens of billions of dollars. The move ...

SACRAMENTO — Medi-Cal, California’s complex, $174.6 billion Medicaid program, provides health insurance for nearly 15 million residents with low incomes and disabilities. The state enrolls twice as ...

Support Without Forced Treatment Housing First was implemented nationally in 2004 under the George W. Bush administration to combat chronic homelessness, defined as having lived on the streets with a ...

Enrollment of underrepresented groups at medical schools fell precipitously this academic year after the Supreme Court’s 2023 ban on affirmative action. Education and health experts worry the Trump ...

As Los Angeles recovers from historic wildfires, both previously unsheltered and chronically homeless people are facing even greater instability. Some lawmakers and providers argue now is the time to ...

A California bill awaiting its first hearing would subject drug industry intermediaries known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, to licensing by the state Department of Insurance. And it would ...

The board of the state Office of Health Care Affordability in October set its benchmark well above the industry’s current 7% primary care spending rate, in hopes of improving Californians’ health and ...