You can’t cheat time,” said Phil Wesseler, a paramedic in Mono County who has witnessed the devastating impact of opioid use ...

Photo by ugurhan/iStock When I heard the news about President Trump imposing tariffs on almost everything that isn’t made in the U.S., the first thing I did was check the packaging on my son’s medical ...

Three months later, LA city and county leaders are struggling to expedite debris cleaning that would allow rebuilding to begin. For displaced families with children who have disabilities, starting ...

A participant shares her experiences during a Sisters Rise Circle gathering. Called the Sisters Rise Circle, the gathering is one of about a dozen circles run by Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, ...

Most domestic violence interventions focus on helping survivors, often requiring them and sometimes their children to upend their lives by seeking shelter and safety. Far fewer resources are dedicated ...

As human beings, we speak and understand stories a lot better than we do laws and policies. That’s as true for regular families as it is for the politicians who make the rules. The programs that are ...

Photo by iStock/sturti. When dialing 911 for a medical emergency, the expectation is clear: Licensed health care providers, typically paramedics and emergency medical technicians, will arrive within ...

Photo by iStock/FG Trade Latin It’s that time of year, filled with Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa and New Year celebrations. For many people, the holidays are an opportunity to come together with family ...

Author Devon Gaster leads a Men Creating Peace class in San Leandro in 2019. Photo by Ray Casarez I sat in a tiny, crowded cell at the San Francisco County Jail, contemplating how I had ended up there ...

Pediatric specialists often earn less than general pediatricians, even though they have undergone three years of additional training, leading fewer future physicians to seek out this line of work.

Enhanced Care Management, also called by its initials ECM, offers children and their caregivers a lead care manager tasked with overseeing all of a child’s health care and related services that ...