The new entity, Providence St. Joseph Health, will include 16 St. Joseph hospitals, including five in Orange County, and 34 Providence hospitals, including six in Los Angeles County. Orange County ...

Although research shows that up to 94 percent of children will "grow out" of their transgender identity, advocates say that those studies were flawed in the first place and shouldn't dictate how ...

In the lawsuit, Dr. Eunice Neeley claimed that her supervisor Stanton Glantz, the director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, sexually harassed her and that he refused to ...

The California Legislature looked at more than 20 bills last year designed to address the ongoing opioid crisis, passing 14. The laws cover a few approaches to bringing opioid death numbers down, ...

When a visit to the office or hospital would set medical care back, home visits help deliver needed care. Meanwhile, other news outlets report on a state push to inform patients when a doctor faces ...

“Place matters. ZIP code matters and race matters,” said Manal Aboelata, managing director at Prevention Institute, a nonprofit group dedicated to overcoming health barriers. Ventura County Star: ...

The Merced-based clinic, which recently filed for bankruptcy and is involved in a variety of lawsuits, announced in a notice on the doorway that all of its clinics closed as of Aug. 1. Meanwhile, in ...

Dr. Bob Sears wrote a vaccination exemption for a 2-year-old child, relying only on the mother's testimony. He faces a wide range of penalties if found negligent, including the revocation or ...

Emergency room doctors at Corona Regional Medical Center have rescinded their contract with Chaudhuri's Community Medical Group of Corona, effective Dec. 29, arguing that the group has failed to pay ...

In other women's health news, new research connects pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia to eye problems later in life. The Bakersfield Californian: Kern Teen Birth Rates Down, But Still Lead State ...

Former Sonoma West CFO Says He Was Told To ‘Falsely Portray’ Hospital’s Finances Ex-CFO Douglas Goldfarb's lawsuit alleges millionaire entrepreneur Dan Smith, Sonoma West Medical Center’s largest ...

The researchers looked at the difference between delayed cord cutting and cord "milking" and found that babies who had been treated with the latter had higher scores on tests of cognition and language ...