By Laura Kurtzman, UCSF News The Atlantic Philanthropies is awarding UC San Francisco and Trinity College Dublin and the University of Dublin, $177 million to...
By Pete Farley, UCSF News A chemical that could potentially be used in eye drops to reverse cataracts, the leading cause of blindness, has been...
By Lauren Silverman, KERA Oviea Akpotaire and Jeffrey Okonye put in long days working with patients at the veterans’ hospital in south Dallas as fourth-year...
By Beatrice Sanchez It’s been three years since I lost the most important person in my life. My mother passed away from congestive...
By Barbara Feder Ostrov, KHN News Covered California still faces major challenges in enrolling African-Americans and Latinos as the state’s health insurance exchange launches its...
By Ina Jaffe, NPR News As Dean Cole’s dementia worsened, he began wandering at night. He’d even forgotten how to drink water. His wife, Virginia,...
By Anna Gorman , Kaiser Health News Soon after moving to Utah this summer, Rainbow Sky Buck ended up at the hospital with a painful...
The California Nurses Association (CNA) has endorsed former East Bay Assemblymember Sandré Swanson for State Senate. The CNA’s support follows recent endorsements by East Bay...
By Gerard A. Turner If research has taught us anything in recent years, it is the ever-evolving relationship between the mind and body. Now...
By Assemblymember Tony Thurmond Since the Medicare and Medicaid program’s simultaneous signage into law by President Johnson 50 years ago, over 48 million Americans...
ATLANTA (UPI) — Montgomery, Ala., beat out Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis and New Orleans as the most sexually diseased city in the U.S., according to an...
(New York Times) – In the last few years, I’ve watched a continuing battle among my friends about which is worse for you: artificial sweeteners or...
(Time) – As the number of elderly Americans soars, Medicare is testing improved benefits for seriously ill seniors. Medicare recently announced new rules that may ease...
Brandon Bailey, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jody Kearns doesn’t like to spend time obsessing about her Parkinson’s disease. The 56-year-old dietitian from...
Brandon Bailey, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jody Kearns doesn’t like to spend time obsessing about her Parkinson’s disease. The 56-year-old dietitian from...
Karen Attiah, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — “All of these police brutality videos on my feed are making me sick,” a black male...
Karen Attiah, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — “All of these police brutality videos on my feed are making me sick,” a black male...
(The Washington Post) – The sex life of the American teenager is apparently far less busy than it was in generations past. Less than half of...
(Tech Times) – People with cataracts often have to subject themselves to invasive surgical or laser treatments in order to restore their sight, but according to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Before he was Jamal Lyon, the sensitive, talented gay son of drug dealer-turned-music mogul on the...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More than 1 in 5 sexually active teen girls have used the morning-after pill — a dramatic...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Older women with mild memory impairment worsened about twice as fast as men, researchers reported Tuesday, part of...
MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Amgen on Tuesday received European approval for its first-of-a-kind cholesterol drug that lowers levels of the artery-clogging substance...
Aaron E. Carroll, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — It is becoming easier to get marijuana, legally. In the last 20 years or...
Silvia Fernandez, PIONEER NEWS (PiercePioneer.com) — A new study has examined the statin guidelines for prevention of cardiovascular events to discover that tens of thousands...
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