Health
Bay Area commemorates World AIDS Day
Beginning Sunday, Dec. 1, officially recognized as World AIDS Day, celebrations are being held as part of a global movement to recognize the more than 35 million people who have died from AIDS-related illnesses in the past 40 years and share support for the estimated 38 million people currently living with AIDS, according to the National AIDS Trust.
California voters deliver accountability to health care providers exploiting drug program
Proposition 34 confronts the longtime abuse of the federal 340B prescription drug program and will hold bad actors accountable if providers don’t spend their revenue on patients. California voters got it right.
Healthcare leviathan Kaiser shrinks downtown Oakland footprint again
Kaiser Permanente is warning it plans to slash its downtown Oakland headquarters footprint.
A California child tested positive for bird flu. Here’s why this case is different
Bird flu has been spreading among dairy workers in California's Central Valley, jumping from cows to people. A new suspected case in the Bay Area came from an unknown source.
How will Trump change health care? California braces for fights over insurance and abortion
California laws governing health insurance, access to abortion and health care for undocumented immigrants could be contested during a second Trump administration.
Covered California starts offering health care to DACA immigrants. Will Trump’s win deter them?
California immigrants with DACA status are newly eligible to buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act. Donald Trump's election creates uncertainty about the future of the program.
Prominent Bay Area legislator says outdated House vacancy rules are a national security threat
“If you really wanted to decapitate democratic government, the way to do it would be to wipe out the House of Representatives.”
These Bay Area counties will launch mental health ‘CARE’ courts. Can they help solve homelessness?
After a slow start in some counties, more courts are opening statewide.
In divide on women’s health care, a consensus on menopause
Despite deep partisan divides on issues like abortion and contraceptive access, lawmakers from both parties appear to have forged a cautious consensus on menopause.
California bird flu outbreak warrants a broader look at the risky ways we produce food
As California confronts a bird flu outbreak, it is also time to take a hard look at the food production system that puts farm workers in close contact with sick animals, the standard American diet that demands it, and the health ramifications of both.
Online vape retailers ignore rules meant to protect minors, new UCSD study finds
Ideally, the researchers would have struck out completely — none of the 156 orders delivered, given the state's ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, and certainly none delivered by the Postal Service.
Tribal health leaders say feds haven’t treated syphilis outbreak as a public health emergency
The NIHB has urged the Department of Health and Human Services to declare a public health emergency as an alarming syphilis outbreak, which disproportionately affects Native Americans, continues.
California insurance department accused of hiding information on life insurance complaints
The Department of Insurance's alleged stonewalling has gone on for months, the Bay Area-based group said
Dentists are pulling ‘healthy’ and treatable teeth to profit from implants, experts warn
Dental implants have been used for more than half a century to surgically replace missing or damaged teeth with artificial duplicates, often with picture-perfect results.
Here are new guidelines for preventing stroke, the nation’s 4th biggest killer
Here are the updated guidelines from the American Stroke Association, their first in 10 years.
The fascinating, crucial work of the Bay Area’s poison control center
Snakebites, caustic chemicals, drug overdoses -- the work of a poison-hotline operator is never boring.
California beat Trump in court his first term. It’s preparing new cases for his second
California sued the Trump administration more than 100 times in his first term and secured some major victories on the environment, immigration and health care.
California voters give Medi-Cal doctors a raise by passing Prop. 35
California's health care industry mostly united behind Proposition 35, which would bolster Medi-Cal by dedicating money for it from a tax on health insurance plans.