Californians are living longer and the state’s aging population has forced policymakers to focus more on the growing ranks of ...

Former legislator Cheryl Brown is the two-time chair of the California Commission on Aging. She took part in the advisory ...

Dan Morain explores the 1967 Lanterman-Petris-Short Act's impact on mental health care, and how his brother's story inspired ...

Early window key for tackling long-term health inequities, and disparities in orthopedics affect everything from outpatient ...

Natalie Eilbert is the mental health reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She began her career as a local government watchdog reporter with Green Bay Press-Gazette, where she won first prize ...

Standing near the razed rubble of the Tidewater Gardens public housing complex in Norfolk, Virginia, waiting for a key source to arrive, I had the audacity to think I was on a reporting roll. After ...

Meera Kymal is Founder/Producer at DesiCollective and the Managing Editor at India Currents. She covers issues that impact minority communities in the South Asian diaspora through the lens of social ...

Katharine “Blair” Stiers is a fourth-year medical student at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She studied Public Health at UC Berkeley, where she was exposed to the dramatic health disparities that ...

The Chinese community, like many others, has a growing elderly population while facing a critical shortage of caregivers. As the largest Asian ethnic group aged 65 years and older, Chinese Americans ...

I have covered health care at the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison since 2005. I previously wrote about health topics and other issues at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Ann Arbor (Mich.) News ...