Statewide Region Local News: Health

Is the controversy over social media just another moral panic, or something to really panic about?

In 2018, California voted to ditch the twice-annual time shift. But the state still has it. Here’s why.

But the bill doesn’t move the state toward single payer fast enough, other healthcare advocates say.

Black women account for 5 percent of all California pregnancies but 21 percent of maternal deaths.

Keeping supply chains running is a huge part of the state economy, but it comes with a price

Hearing Wednesday will probe health plans’ willingness to cover expanded range of mental conditions.

Gov. cites existing state program to help buy hearing aids, but parents call it a ‘nightmare’

Gov. says California is already working on effort to manufacture its own insulin at lower costs.

Many states have ended the practice of confiscating benefits from orphaned and disabled kids, but California will let it continue.

But opponents fear that new involuntary treatment rules violate civil liberties.