We Can Solve Our Care and Housing Crises, Together
Both of these crises require new systems and structures that reflect our commitment to our blood and chosen families.
Health care
What to Expect When You鈥檙e Expecting an Abortion
When it comes to the often-taboo topic of abortion, the authors of "Liberating Abortion" are eager to share their wisdom with anyone considering accessing this form of health care.
How Pet-Friendly Homeless Shelters Heal
The bond between people and their pets can be life-saving, especially amid the struggle for safe housing.
Protecting Black Pregnant People鈥檚 Health鈥攁nd Data
Birth workers serving Black pregnant people maintain the holistic methods鈥攁nd data privacy鈥攖hat distinguish doula care from the medical-industrial complex.
Punjabi Californians Find a Lifeline Through Community Health Workers
Facing a health care system without sufficient translation services and a grueling economic landscape, Punjabi residents in Fresno, California, have created an organization to help meet their community鈥檚 unique needs.
What鈥檚 in a Name? For Abortion Providers, Quite a Bit.
Even before abortion became illegal in 14 states, some reproductive health care clinics were rebranding to better reflect the broad spectrum of gender-inclusive care they provide.
AI Can鈥檛 Fix Our Broken Health Care System, But People Can
AI is trained on data from our health care system as it exists, which means the data is contaminated by racial, economic, and regional disparities. But there are solutions.
Druze Women Balance Sexual Health, Pleasure, and Tradition
Sex education is often taboo in close-knit Druze communities, but a new generation is creating its own care networks.
How Mexico鈥檚 Abortion Activists Care for Each Other鈥攁nd Themselves
As volunteer collectives bring Mexico to the forefront of abortion access, they have also prioritized emotional wellness.
Can California Kids Get Specialty Care Sooner?
Children are more likely to survive when treated by pediatric specialists than those trained to treat adults; but there鈥檚 a shortage of these specialists in California and nationwide.
Serious About Gender Exploration? There鈥檚 a Doula for That.
Just like birth doulas, gender doulas support people at all stages of their gender journey.
6 Ways California Can Help Kids With Disabilities Get Care
Experts and disability justice advocates say these changes could help more California families with children who have complex medical needs access the care they鈥榬e entitled to.
A Day in the Life of Parents Caring for a Child With Complex Medical Needs
California offers a suite of programs intended to help parents access medically necessary care for their children, but enrollment is complex, time-consuming, and full of bureaucratic red tape.
Chronicling the Messy Truth of Cancer
After her cervical cancer diagnosis, Caitlin Breedlove sought connection and stories from other survivors, but found them few and far between.
Learning to Love What Nourishes My Son
For this California mom, supporting her medically complex son鈥檚 relationship with food meant relinquishing control and embracing what worked.
There鈥檚 No Justification for Destroying Gaza鈥檚 Health Infrastructure
In this op-ed鈥攚hich the Journal of the American Medical Association rejected鈥攖hree doctors say the medical establishment should be morally unambiguous on bombing hospitals.
California Shouldn鈥檛 Ration Care for Disabled Kids
What good is a waiver program intended to help families access in-home care for medically fragile children if the program is full?
The Power of Parents Supporting Parents
Parents of disabled children are increasingly connecting with each other to help navigate the complex medical, social, and support systems they must access to care for their kids.
Not What They Expected: Grandparents As Day Care
Expanded federal funding for child care ended Oct. 1, and in many cases, extended families, including grandparents, will shoulder the burden.
California Offers a Lifeline for Children With Long-Term Health Conditions
California鈥檚 Enhanced Care Management program, offered through Medi-Cal, could help parents who are caring for children with complex physical, behavioral, and social needs.
Surviving Birth
Birth workers are helping Black parents navigate overlapping crises.
Making Legal Abortion Accessible in India
Rural healthcare workers in India are fighting to overcome stigma and systemic shortcomings to help patients.
Children With Complex Medical Needs Belong at Home
We could do more to allow these children to stay at home, instead of being forced into institutionalized care.
FDA鈥檚 Blood Ban Reversal for Gay Men, Explained
The FDA鈥檚 latest move represents a seismic shift for gay and bisexual men as well as for the critically low U.S. blood supply.
The Matriarchs Who Helped Seattle鈥檚 Urban Native Population
鈥淗elping fellow Native people became the most powerful medicine the service league dispensed for healing a generation of wounded spirits.鈥�
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