A report published Thursday found the percentage of ED visits related to fire and smoke inhalation rose in the days after the ...

New data show that emergency department visits for wildfire-related issues jumped eight-fold in the days after the Los ...

Dr. Barbara Ferrer said residents should assess their homes for soot, ash and smoke contamination before settling back in.

L.A. County Department of Public Health convened experts for a webinar that aimed to answer questions that residents have ...

The County of Santa Barbara is set to approve a new Exclusive Ambulance Provider agreement during its Feb. 11 meeting that ...

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors appointed Dr. Jennifer R. Chevinsky as the county’s new Public Health Officer. She ...

For California, 2024 was a record-breaking year for the amount of marijuana products pulled by state regulators due to ...

A child in California is presumed to have H5N1 bird flu, according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH). As of Dec. 23, there had been 36 confirmed human cases of bird flu in ...

As part of a flurry of new executive orders and directives from the Trump administration, agencies under the Department of ...

In 2000, in response to the frustration of 23 million California HMO consumers, I was appointed by then-California Gov. Gray Davis to be the nation’s first “HMO czar.” The new agency I was running was ...

Therapists and union reps accuse the HMO giant of saddling workers with excessive caseloads while forcing patients to wait ...