The modeling studies predicted that excluding soda and other sweetened beverages would reduce purchases of those items and improve diets. One of the studies also suggested the bans could reduce ...

A reporter shares advice on how to tell an honest story about autism and youth suicide that doesn’t impose a simple narrative on the complexities of real life.

A reporter builds trust through close listening in SF's Latino immigrant community, uncovering deeper health stories on ...

A kidney transplant survivor urges donation despite safety fears after a Times investigation sparked registry withdrawals, ...

This story was produced in collaboration with News from Native California as part of the 2026 Ethnic Media Collaborative, Healing California. In 1974, Native Americans recently relocated and in need ...

Abraham Jun (Suicide Attempt Survivor): “I had a gun… and I put it to my head.” Anonymous Korean American Senior: “At that time, I was in shock…and I started thinking it might be better to leave this ...

When Nibedita was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 40, she did not tell her mother or her mother-in-law, who lived in India. That decision, made from love, isolated her. Both women, beloved ...

Given that the United States spends more on health care than any nation in the world — around $5 trillion annually — Dr. Georges Benjamin asked a simple question to a room of journalists earlier this ...

Years ago, while researching another story, I stumbled across an image of a 1976 newspaper clipping that stopped me cold. The shocking headline, “Government Admits Sterilizing 3,400 Native American ...

Much of the nation’s lettuce, strawberries, spinach, broccoli and other produce comes from California’s Salinas Valley. I thought I had a pretty good grasp on what that meant for the people who live ...

Yosef Berlyand had $263,000 in medical school debt when he graduated in 2019. He has scrupulously made loan payments since then. With accumulated interest, he now owes $271,000. The stress of bearing ...

The rapid expansion of supersize data centers to power AI may not seem like a big story for health journalists. The growing public backlash has focused on the environmental impact: the massive use of ...