Lauren M. Whaley

Ask Emily columnist Emily Bazar explains Obamacare at a public forum in Modesto. This is a short video clip from that event.

Ask Emily columnist Emily Bazar explains Obamacare at a public forum in Modesto. This is a short video clip from that event. 

Ask Emily columnist Emily Bazar explains Obamacare at a public forum in Modesto. This is a short video clip from that event.

Everyone pictured here has a mental illness. They live in this community. A daughter. An uncle. A sister. A friend. A neighbor. A co-worker.

After months of negotiations, including major amendments added just a week ago, a bill aiming to improve care for women giving birth outside the hospital passed unanimously Thursday night.

It may now be in our rearview mirror, but the Great Recession is impacting California’s Medi-Cal expansion, slated to start with Obamacare in January.

Today’s teenagers aren’t having as many babies as their counterparts did 10 and 20 years ago.

For parents of newborns – or those expecting one – congratulations! And start planning.

What is this Obamacare-related state health insurance thing called Covered California? How do I find out if it works for me? And if I’m healthy and young, say 28, do I need to get health insurance?

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Father Calin Tamiian hopes one day spirituality will be recognized as a vital sign.

The prices are in.

If you’re on Medicare, you will soon be getting your pack of mail-order diabetic test strips and lancets for about 72 percent less than you get them now. 

I inherited the big foam gray chair during my junior year of college. The guy who gave it to me got it from a friend a few years before and she had been given it by a friend as well. It was meant to be passed on eventually. 

Dr. Paul Gregerson says November 7, the day after the election, was a “very good day in my life.”

Adriana Churchwell serves me up a lunchtime veggie burrito with guacamole several times a week at the Qdoba restaurant across the street from my Alhambra office.

When my cousin with advanced melanoma started receiving palliative care at her home, I thought it was hospice. I was wrong. 

Irene Nashtut’s adult day health care center lost 62 clients this spring. They have not exactly wandered off, or been recruited by a rival center. They have been declared ineligible.

“Those that can stand up, please stand up. Those that cannot stand up, please sing along with us.”

The Supreme Court’s validation of President Obama’s landmark health law sets off a scramble across California to find enough primary care doctors and other professionals to serve an estimated 3 milli

I assembled my makeshift photo studio in a windowless office just big enough for a desk and two chairs. Wax paper covered the Home Depot work lights. Electrical tape held up the white sheet I had borrowed from my Modesto hotel room.