healthcare

The General Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles will offer a day of free medical services for people in Los Angeles County on Wednesday, May 11.

On measures like maternal mortality, infant mortality and paid leave after birth, the U.S. lags behind comparable countries

Former President Barack Obama will be returning to the White House on Tuesday for his first public event there since he left office in 2017

Frustrated by how much they were paying for health care, two groups of California workers sued one of the nation’s largest hospital systems. One group secured a half-billion-dollar settlement. The other lost in court. Both cases took nearly a decade to resolve, highlighting the difficulty patients and their employers often face when trying to corral the ever-increasing costs of...

The free mega clinic will provide access to basic care that isn’t available to those without a primary care doctor. Darsha Philips reports for Today in LA on Sunday, March 6, 2022.

Sen. Toni Atkins introduces a new bill focused on expanding abortion care and other health care services.

Federal regulators are suing to block UnitedHealth Group’s purchase of the technology company Change Healthcare, a deal announced more than a year ago.

California lawmakers on Tuesday will start debating whether to create the nation’s first universal health care system in a key measure of whether the proposal will muster the support it needs to pass this year.

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The program helps place primary care doctors in communities that have a hard time recruiting and retaining them.

Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge

Health care giant Kaiser Permanente has put more than 2,200 employees nationwide on unpaid leave for choosing not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The Affordable Care Act is now secure in the framework of the nation’s health care programs, and Democrats are eager to leap above and beyond.

Some U.S. employers and insurers want you to make telemedicine your first choice for most doctor visits

What is “Age-friendly Care”? How does it affect you and your loved ones? Watch as Ereka Vetrini learns how The John A. Hartford Foundation can help older adults live their best life! (sponsored)

President Joe Biden is pledging that his $1.9 trillion rescue package will build on the promise of the Affordable Care Act

A local father and son are hoping their silicone bracelets start a movement that will encourage more people to get the COVID-19 vaccine when it’s their turn. Keith Willerman and his son Alec say they’ve sold thousands of their “Vaccinated and Proud” bracelets across the country in a little more than a month. The idea is that vaccinated people wear...

Former Associate FDA Commissioner Peter Pitts breaks down five critical healthcare lessons that have come from the COVID-19 pandemic and explores why many of those lessons have fallen on deaf ears.

Studies show there is still a good deal of mistrust in the coronavirus vaccines as the first wave of shots is rolling out to millions of Americans across the country. Dr. Khalilah Gates and Dr. Melissa Simon, both of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and who have both already received a first dose of the vaccine, talked to LX...