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The outside of the San Diego VA Medical Center is shown on Nov. 2, 2018.

Whistleblowers Allege Human Research Violations At San Diego VA

Federal investigators looking into the whistleblowers’ allegations sent a strongly worded letter to President Trump and to Congress urging a “truly critical look” into the VA San Diego Healthcare System.

City workers wash down streets and sidewalks in an effort to control Hepatitis A outbreak in San Diego, Sept. 11, 2017.

San Diego Hepatitis A Outbreak Prompts City To Wash Streets, Sidewalks

A San Diego Councilwoman called on the city Monday to take stronger measures along the San Diego River against an outbreak of hepatitis A that has killed at least 15 people and sickened around 400.

Mindy Coughlin, left, and Heidi Unruh, center, both San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency Public Health Nurses and an outreach worker from Friend to Friend talk to a homeless person about getting the hepatitis A vaccination in downtown San Diego in this undated photo.

Public Health Emergency Declared In San Diego County Over Hepatitis A Outbreak

The Board of Supervisors Wednesday unanimously ratified a declaration of a public health emergency in San Diego County related to an outbreak of hepatitis A that has sickened nearly 400 people, 15 fatally.

A Search For New Ways To Pay For Drugs That Cost A Mint

Installment plans and refunds for treatments that don't work are two options getting more attention as ultra-expensive therapies become more common. The financial strains will only grow.

A nurse loads a syringe with a vaccine against hepatitis at a free immunization clinic for students before the start of the school year, in Lynwood, California in 2013.

San Diego Declares Health Emergency Amid Hepatitis A Outbreak

The virus has killed more than a dozen people and sickened hundreds of others in San Diego since November.

Officials Fumbled With Permits, Pilot Project As Deadly Hepatitis Outbreak Surged

In the two months since officials decided to set up hand-washing stations to help combat a deadly hepatitis A outbreak, the county has deployed just two stations. Until Wednesday, both were miles away from the downtown streets that are essentially ground zero of the outbreak.

Researchers followed a group of kids from childhood into adulthood to track the link between trauma in early life and adult mental health.

Should Childhood Trauma Be Treated As A Public Health Crisis?

New research highlights the link between childhood trauma and mental illness and addiction in adulthood, leading some researchers to call it an issue as pressing as any infectious disease.

Needles at the Alaska AIDS Assistance Association syringe exchange in Anchorage.

Syringe Exchange Program Aims To Slow Hepatitis C Infections In Alaska

As the nation's opioid abuse problem soars, so do health problems associated with drug use like hepatitis C, which is placing a major burden on Alaska's Medicaid program.

Connor Webb and his mother, Kim Webb, stand outside of their home in Huntington Beach, Calif. Connor was treated for a rare cancer at 16. He's well now but his mother is fighting for new cures in case the cancer comes back.

Scientists And Parents Band Together To Research Cures For Rare Childhood Cancer

A research start-up is connecting parents with scientists in hopes of sparking new research on diseases whose survival rates and treatment options haven't budged in 30 years

A drug specialist in the Mexican army shows crystal methamphetamine paste seized at a clandestine laboratory in Mexico's Baja California in August. Much of the meth sold in the U.S. today comes from Mexico, according to DEA officials.

Methamphetamine Roils Rural Towns Again Across The U.S.

Meth is back "with a vengeance," police say. Now made mostly by superlabs in Mexico, it is stronger, cheaper and more prevalent, cutting across demographic barriers and sparking serious crime.

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