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While it ponders ambitious new laws to improve mental health, California could strengthen what’s already on the books.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Newly obtained documents in the killing of Sophia Mason show that Hayward police — after getting a missing person’s report about the 8-year-old in March 2022 — swiftly determined what Alameda County social workers had failed to see for more than a year: The girl was…

California teenager Chloe Cole has become something of a star of the movement to deny treatments to transgender youth.

Commentators portray Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a more organized and calculating Donald Trump. In reality, DeSantis most resembles Richard Nixon — disciplined, stiff and intense. Both lack Trump’s charisma and ease before voters. Also unlike Trump — but very much like Nixon — DeSantis effectively deploys powers of the…

After 10 weeks of workers walking the picket line, core issues regarding patient care remain unresolved.

Enjoy it while it lasts: Workers’ pay has been growing faster than the cost of job-based health insurance.

A prominent national survey finds that premiums for family coverage in employer health plans held steady this year — a first for an annual report that for decades has shown family coverage in the U.S. becoming increasingly expensive.

LOS ANGELES — Some California children’s hospitals are straining under a surge of RSV, a respiratory illness that can cause babies to struggle to breathe.

Health insurers will flood the Medicare Advantage market again this fall with enticing offers of plans that have no monthly price tag

More than 2,000 workers demand that Kaiser Permanente expand the workforce and improve access to care for patients

As Americans commemorate a million deaths due to COVID-19, the partisan divide of who has gotten sick and died continues to grow, mostly due to disinformation about the vaccines.