Patrice Apodaca
columnist
Patrice Apodaca is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer and is coauthor of “A Boy Named Courage: A Surgeon’s Memoir of Apartheid.” She lives in Newport Beach.
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Columnist Patrice Apodaca talks to a pediatric infectious diseases expert about why measles outbreaks among children are a result of vaccine hesitancy and denial growing across the nation.
As temperatures rise, Orange County reacts to ICE raids, special elections and the battle over who will control the school board and libraries.
The steady loss of public school students is putting Santa Ana Unified, and most districts throughout California, in a tough place financially.
Wallace “Wally” Ziegler was an Army medic in the Vietnam War. The Laguna Beach local is one of those who survived to tell us their stories — the ones who can truly understand and appreciate the sacrifices made.
By all accounts it was a happy day at San Miguel Park in Newport Beach when, late last month, the city dedicated its first playground designed to be accessible to people of all ability levels.
Shuttering the U.S. Department of Education would be a devastating loss for U.S. education.
Apodaca: Ongoing misinformation about MMR vaccinations flies in the face of facts, imperils children
An Orange County pediatrician worries that as a downward trend in vaccination rates continues she’ll see more children die of diseases that we know how to prevent, columnist Patrice Apodaca writes.
As school districts grapple with how best to limit students’ smartphone use on campus, NMUSD undertook a pilot program to try out Yondr pouches at Corona del Mar Middle School.
Daily Pilot columnist Patrice Apodaca speaks to a UC Irvine professor who worries limits to indirect funding at the NIH could stifle important health research.
Significant hurdles remain in the way of Orange County following a more environmentally responsible path, but a knowledgeable expert is on the job.