CalFresh Benefits Will Be Delayed: The California Department of Social Services confirmed Thursday that it expects CalFresh to go dark starting Nov. 1 as a result of the federal government shutdown.

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California this week plans to notify Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees that their costs could rise sharply next year unless Congress extends subsidies to help people buy health insurance. This ...

TURLOCK — California, like much of the nation, is not producing enough nurses working at bedsides to meet the needs of an aging and diverse population, fueling a workforce crunch that risks ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a suite of privacy protection bills for transgender patients amid continuing threats by the Trump administration. This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be ...

San Francisco Sees Dip In OD Deaths: Accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco have dropped to the lowest monthly number so far this year. According to the Department of Public Health, 38 people ...

California To Offer $11 Insulin Pens: Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a plan to offer $11 insulin pens through the state’s pharmaceutical venture. Beginning Jan. 1, consumers can purchase a ...

San Francisco Scientist Part Of Trio That Wins Nobel Prize In Medicine: Fred Ramsdell, Mary E. Brunkow, and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for their discoveries concerning ...

KP Health Workers Plan Large Strike Next Week: More than 31,000 union nurses and hospital staff across several states, including California, have sent a strike notice to Kaiser Permanente indicating ...

KP Lays Off Employees Across California Ahead Of Strike: The health care provider is eliminating more than 200 positions, mostly in IT and food services, across 15 hospitals and clinics. More than ...

After a years-long bitter partisan fight over reforming the U.S. Postal Service’s finances and service, congressional leaders say they have a compromise. The bill, which has won endorsements from both ...