Everybody carries the potential for diseases in their genes, but that potential doesn’t always result in illnesses. What flips the genetic switch to create disease in some people and not in others? And even more critically, why is it that those who have ongoing exposure to stress—living in a violent neighborhood or below the poverty level, for example—are more prone to such diseases? Answers may be found in dark matter.
Amid the turmoil of the nationwide financial woes, health-care advocates in California are urging their lawmakers not to lose sight of what they see as a rare opportunity to help close the gap on the state’s health disparities.
The federally funded program known as Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, is better known for providing food stamps to needy families, but it also encourages mothers to breastfeed through support and peer counseling. In Salinas, the Monterey County program has zeroed in on farmworkers who are new moms.
A Salinas library found some creative ways to become a community hub.
African-American babies are more than twice as likely to die before their first birthday as white babies. Are current prevention efforts enough to close the health gap?
Oakland’s next big experiment in transit-oriented development may be overshadowed, literally and figuratively, by the city’s freeways.
Critics of prison realignment say that the law has caused a spike in crime. But experts caution that it is far too early to understand the effects of the law.
The West County Health Center is the wave of the health care future, says ACA co-author Representative George Miller.
Low income children in Santa Cruz County already have a tough time getting in to see a dentist. As the state prepares to start transitioning 6,791 Santa Cruz County children covered under the state’s Healthy Families Program to Medi-Cal in 2013, dental options for those kids could get even slimmer.
Gang intervention workers and cops are working together to curb gang violence in Los Angeles. But the relationship between the two groups isn’t always easy.