Ryan White

An estimated 60 percent of Skid Row residents have mental health disorders, and another 60 percent are addicted or have a history of addiction. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are the most common mental health problems. Can finding them stable housing be a solution to their health woes?

As the state with the largest number of uninsured, California has aggressively moved forward in implementing the Affordable Care Act. Still, the state faces massive hurdles in implementing health reform.

Figuring out how to couch health policy stories in broader narratives can be a challenge, but trotting out different storytelling approaches becomes increasingly important when it comes to policy topics such as Obamacare that are in the news every day.

Perhaps every journalist dreams of writing a story that changes the world. Fewer dream of writing the story that changes themselves. But it’s that latter story that found Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez, who shared his experience with the 2013 National Health Journalism Fellows.

Poverty can have disastrous impacts on children’s health and chances of success. Medical providers help by emphasizing to parents of at-risk children the overarching importance their voice, attention and face time play in their baby's life.

Nationwide, about four percent of grandchildren are in the care of their grandparents, a figure that jumps upwards of seven percent in states such as Louisiana and Mississippi.

Obesity has been very much in the news this week after the American Medical Association voted to label the condition a disease, a move that could eventually pave the way for expanded insurance coverage of treatments and further raise public awareness of a condition that affects about one in three Am

Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child floats a two-generation pronged theory for improving childhood development.

Can Twitter help spread reliable information on health? Or is it a dangerously effective purveyor of misinformation, paranoia and balderdash?

These centers help tackle challenges that traditional primary care hasn’t been able to address. Services most in-demand by students in underserved neighborhoods are behavioral health, reproductive health and health education.