Help keep Salon independent

Ana B. Ibarra

(Drew Angerer/Getty Images))

Flavor bans multiply, but menthol continues to divide

Ana B. Ibarra
FILE - In this April 23, 2014, file photo, Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at Vape Store in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) (AP)

States target vaping with bans. In California, the action is local.

Ana B. Ibarra
French Fabien Danjan of CNRS (French Reseach Institut Center) processes to a handling as he introduces embryonic stem cells in a mouse embryo to set a genetically modified line, on February 9, 2012, at the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), in the transgenesis laboratory which in charge to create animals in order to understand how genes work, in Marseille, southern France. AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT (Photo credit should read ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images) (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images)

Despite failed promises, stem cell advocates again want taxpayers to pony up billions

Ana B. Ibarra
(AP Photo/Chris Post)

California bill would fight deals that delay generic drugs

Ana B. Ibarra
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013, file photo, Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, announced that nearly 35,000 people signed up for health insurance during the first month of open enrollment, from Oct. 1 through Nov. 2, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. State-run health insurance markets that offer taxpayer-subsidized coverage under President Barack Obama’s law are grappling with high costs and disappointing enrollment, challenges that could lead more of them to turn over functions to the federal government, or join forces with other states. With the pressure gone, "I think you are going to see a much more of a hybrid across the nation,' said Lee. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) (AP)

With ACA’s future in peril, California reins in rising health insurance premiums

Barbara Feder Ostrov, Ana B. Ibarra
(Getty/CherriesJD)

Want Ammo? Be prepared for a background check in California

Ana B. Ibarra
Gavin Newsom (GettyKevork Djansezian)

Gov. Newsom proposes tax to fund health insurance subsidies

Samantha Young, Ana B. Ibarra
(AP/Tony Gutierrez)

Lawmakers push to stop surprise ER billing

Ana B. Ibarra
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

States weigh banning a widely used pesticide even though EPA won’t

Ana B. Ibarra
The campus at the University of California Berkeley. (<a href='https://www.shutterstock.com/g/cdrin'>cdrin</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Students with disabilities call college admissions cheating “big slap in the face”

Barbara Feder Ostrov, Ana B. Ibarra
(AP/Ross D. Franklin)

Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Is striking for school nurses the way to go?

Ana B. Ibarra
(Getty/sturti)

Providers walk “fine line” between informing and scaring immigrant patients

Ana B. Ibarra
In this Dec. 1, 2015 photo, a woman wears a mask to protect herself from pollutants near Tiananmen Gate on a heavily polluted day in Beijing. Episodes of nauseating smog lasting several days has become part of wintertime in the Chinese capital, and for many Beijing residents face masks have become a routine cold-weather accessory, along with hats and gloves. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (AP)

For wildfire safety, only particular masks guard against toxic particulate matter

Samantha Young, Ana B. Ibarra
(AP/Christophe Ena)

Parent alert! Your kid may be vaping more than tobacco

Ana B. Ibarra
Firefighters try to control a back burn as the Carr fire continues to spread on July 31, 2018. (Getty/Mark Ralston)

Breathing “a chore”: California wildfires threaten the health of young and old

Anna Gorman, Ana B. Ibarra
FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2014, File photo, a patron exhales vapor from an e-cigarette at the Henley Vaporium in New York. The first peek at a major study of how Americans smoke suggests many use combinations of products, and often e-cigarettes are part of the mix. It's a preliminary finding, but it highlights some key questions as health officials assess electronic cigarettes. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) (AP)

The Juul’s so cool, kids smoke it in school

Ana B. Ibarra
A man stands in a flooded street in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in San Juan, Puerto Rico (Getty/Joe Raedle)

Hospitals’ best-laid plans upended by disaster

Ana B. Ibarra
(AP)

California rolls out website to cut through cannabis haze

Ana B. Ibarra
(AP)

Training new doctors right where they’re needed

Ana B. Ibarra
(AP Photo/LM Otero)

Fearing deportation, parents worry about undocumented kids in medicaid program

Ana B. Ibarra
An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

Federal money for state-level Zika tracking, prevention may end this summer

Ana B. Ibarra
(Getty/sturti)

Lost in translation: When parents and pediatricians don’t speak the same language

Ana B. Ibarra