Community Safety
Due to medical community opposition, California Assemblyman Vince Fong withdrew a bill late last month that would have mandated doctors to run specific lab testing under suspect valley fever.
The budget includes $8 million for research and outreach into the disease, caused by inhaling spores that grow in arid soil.
A new reporting project will look at how injuries and killings at the hands of L.A. County Sheriff Deputies impact the health of survivors, families and their communities.
Four years after the rape of a woman at Hacienda HealthCare launched reforms, critics say the state is still not doing enough to protect people with IDD from abuse.
Growing up isn’t easy for anyone. But for someone with an intellectual or developmental disability, it can feel impossible.
Almost nobody has been moved into permanent supportive housing.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says Michigan should improve how it regulates the usage of a controversial tactic educators deployed nearly 94,000 times since lawmakers tried to tamp down on the maneuvers.
A review of internal records and interviews with a dozen current and former health department staff show what expertise it possesses has long been muzzled or ignored.