The Freedom to Choose Hysterectomy
This form of care can be hard to access for those who have a uterus in a medical system built for cis women having babies.
Health Justice
YES! Media’s coverage of health justice recognizes that the health and wellness of individuals and communities are inextricably tied to accessibility and economic, environmental, and racial justice. Our coverage of health care centers the voices and perspectives of people, grassroots movements, and organizations that understand and are pushing us toward a world in which is accessible, culturally competent, and inclusive health care is treated as a human right. Our conception of health care includes access to abortion and other reproductive health care, as well as holisitic, traditional, and non-Western knowledge of treatments.
Colombian Activists Destigmatize Drug Use—and Make It Safer
After a failed War on Drugs, Échele Cabeza is working to protect drug consumers rather than penalize them.
The Fight to Preserve Medicaid for Disabled Children in California
A budget proposal from House Republicans could gut Medi-Cal. Families and advocates want to preserve a more certain future for their children’s care.
Insulin Should Be a Right, Not a Privilege
Trump is attacking the policies aimed at making prescription medications affordable and accessible to all.
Rare-Disease Patients Know: We All Deserve Better Care
Often forced to become experts on their own treatment, rare-disease patients are modeling the collective care and mutual aid networks that can help ensure everyone's long-term survival.
A Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care
Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.
Protecting Black Pregnant People’s Health—and Data
Birth workers serving Black pregnant people maintain the holistic methods—and data privacy—that 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’s unique needs.
What’s 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’t 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.
How Mexico’s Abortion Activists Care for Each Other—and 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’s a shortage of these specialists in California and nationwide.
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‘re 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’s relationship with food meant relinquishing control and embracing what worked.
There’s No Justification for Destroying Gaza’s Health Infrastructure
In this op-ed—which the Journal of the American Medical Association rejected—three doctors say the medical establishment should be morally unambiguous on bombing hospitals.
California Shouldn’t 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.
California Offers a Lifeline for Children With Long-Term Health Conditions
California’s Enhanced Care Management program, offered through Medi-Cal, could help parents who are caring for children with complex physical, behavioral, and social needs.
Making Medicare Drugs Affordable
Medicare can finally use its purchasing power to negotiate lower drug prices—but Big Pharma is pushing back.
Surviving Birth
Birth workers are helping Black parents navigate overlapping crises.
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’s Blood Ban Reversal for Gay Men, Explained
The FDA’s latest move represents a seismic shift for gay and bisexual men as well as for the critically low U.S. blood supply.
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