Ideas & Opinions — Randi Briggs: Healthcare and the Continuing Resolution

What is the big brouhaha all about regarding healthcare losses that Democrats claim are the reason they have shut down the government? Remember, the proposed Continuing Resolution maintains the same spending Democrats voted for last time and...

GLAAD’s Black Queer Creative Summit Returns to Los Angeles for a Powerful Second Year

When I arrived at the Sofitel Los Angeles for the 2025 Black Queer Creative Summit (BQCS) partnered with P&G, BET, Zillow, Starz #TakeTheLead, Lyft, Crocs and Hinge’s One More Hour initiative as Official Sponsors and Spotify as a Supporting...

Three More Deaths in L.A. Linked to Synthetic Kratom Compound, Health Officials Warn

LA County Confirms Six Total Fatalities Tied to the Synthetic Substance Los Angeles County health officials have identified three more deaths linked to the synthetic kratom compound 7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH), prompting renewed warnings about the...

Los Angeles Renowned Psychiatrist Dr. Mike Mah Opens Century City Psychiatry, Bringing Accessible Mental Health Care to Santa Monica Boulevard

Board-certified psychiatrist and host of Real Mental Health Podcast launches insurance-based practice at 10323 Santa Monica Blvd, offering comprehensive psychiatric services under expert clinical oversight. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/...

Susquehanna clinic fears Medicaid cuts could threaten access to crucial rural healthcare

SUSQUEHANNA CO. (WOLF) — The Susquehanna Family Health Clinic has been a cornerstone of care in the community for more than 40 years. Generations of families have walked through its doors, relying on the small-town clinic for everything from...

Family found dead in San Francisco home identified

The medical examiner identified them as Thomas Russell Ocheltree, 57; Paula Truong, 53; Alexandra Ocheltree, 12; Mackenzie Ocheltree, 9. Their causes and manners of death are pending, according to the medical examiner. SAN FRANCISCO - Authorities...

California takes ultra-processed foods off the school menu

Dive Brief: Starting in summer 2029, ultra-processed foods must be off the menu in school cafeterias, under a measure signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The new law requires the state's Department of Public Health to define...

California Governor Signs Bill Codifying Existing Corporate Practice Restrictions and Imposing Certain New Limitations on Noncompetition Restrictions

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 351 into law on October 6, 2025, codifying certain elements of the state’s restrictions on the corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) and corporate practice of dentistry (CPOD). Although the...

Archer Opens Second State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Plant in Los Angeles, Doubling Capacity and Adding 200 Jobs

The meat snack industry just witnessed a major expansion as Archer, one of America’s fastest-growing clean-ingredient meat snack brands, officially opened its second manufacturing facility in Vernon, California. This strategic move represents more...

UCSF Health-affiliated hospital taps CEO

Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital has named Kelley Kaiser as its next president and CEO, effective in early November. Ms. Kaiser was selected by the Sonoma Valley Health Care District Board of Directors in conjunction with San Francisco-based UCSF...

Hospitals & Clinics Still Paid Unequally for Same Care, Research Shows

Fraud, waste and abuse remains rampant in the U.S. healthcare system, according to trends detailed in a new report published by market research firm Trilliant Health. Many of the trends uncovered in the report have to do with opaque payment...

California’s landmark frontier AI law to bring transparency

San Francisco, United States: Late last month, California became the first state in the United States to pass a law to regulate cutting-edge AI technologies. Now experts are divided over its impact. They agree that the law, the Transparency in...

Neil Diamond, 84, on His Health and the Honor That Means the Most (EXCLUSIVE)

Everyone knows Neil Diamond. Between his loveable personality and a song catalogue that includes “Sweet Caroline,” the 84-year-old is truly a legend. In fact, people love him so much that the Children’s Diabetes Foundation (CDF) decided to honor...

I Escaped California’s Radical Policies. Virginia Doesn’t Have to Inherit Them.

Looking back at my fondest and most tender moments growing up and into adulthood, they all have one common denominator: a Californian backdrop. It’s the state where I learned to read, where I first performed on a stage, where I had my most...

California Braces for ‘Devastating’ Expected Cuts to Federal Homeless Housing Funds

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. The latest blow in a seemingly endless barrage of bad news for the California agencies tasked with fighting...

California bans cat declawing under new state law

Pet owners take note: California has banned declawing cats. Following a 25-year debate over local laws, state bills and legal battles between the state’s leading veterinarian organization and animal welfare groups who say declawing is cruel,...

Flint Help Day offers aid to unhoused with mental health focus

Help Day in Flint combined homelessness and mental health support, offering food, resources, and emotional care to those in need. Organizers aimed to show unhoused people they're not alone. FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Several groups in Flint united for...

Kahi Mohala celebrates first anniversary under The Queen’s Health Systems

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Queen’s Health Systems’ psychiatric hospital in West Oahu celebrated its one-year anniversary Friday. Kahi Mohala was acquired by The Queen’s Health System last October from the California-based Sutter Health...

Stanislaus County nurses express concerns with county's hospital staffing crisis

The nursing shortage is hitting counties across California, but the California Nurses Association says it's not so much a nursing shortage as it is a staffing crisis. In Stanislaus County, local nurses say the issue isn't about finding more people...

Nobel Prize 2025 winners for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature: a full list

OSLO, Norway — The award Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has brought this week’s Nobel announcements to a conclusion. Only, the economics prize on Monday remains. The peace prize is the only...