Following a decision by the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors to table a sales tax that would have helped save embattled Doctors Medical Center (DMC)...
Hospice of San Joaquin has received The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for accreditation by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health...
Alameda County’s successful “Farm Stand” program, which brings locally grown fresh produce to neighborhoods where this kind of healthy food may not be readily available, is...
With Baby Boomers projected to more than double in California by 2050 – and many seniors struggling without savings or insurance to cover their long term...
Mental health is almost never brought up as a subject of conversation in Black America – certainly not in urban communities like Oakland where shootings and...
By Jeffrey Norris, UC News Infants exposed to a diverse range of bacterial species in house dust during the first year of life appear to be...
Christian Vassell, 20, is autistic but has not allowed his disability to define him. Now a student at the National Institute for Artist and Disabilities (NIAD),...
Hollywood rolled out the red carpet to fight HIV/AIDS as the Black AIDS Institute celebrated its 15th anniversary. The gala, held in Hollywood at the Director’s...
The Randle and Watkins families, in conjunction with the Second Baptist Church Health Ministry, are working together again to sponsor the 9th American Red Cross blood...
Coping with terminal illness can be very difficult – for the patient as well as his or her loved ones. That’s why I want to pass...
By Juliana Bunim UCSF News A new international, multi-center study led by researchers from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital is the first to evaluate whether purified cannabinoid...
The O.A.S.I.S. Clinic, which provides treatment for people with hepatitis, last week hosted hosting Oakland mayoral candidate forum, where candidates spoke about their vision for a...
Education has always been a priority for Martina Lawson, motivational speaker and TV host, who was diagnosed with scoliosis at 12 years old. A condition in...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) announced this week that a total of $15,926,537 in Department of Health and Human Services grant funding to Bay Area community health...
Valisha Fullard has been named the new named new executive director of the California Autism Foundation. For the past six months, she has been serving as...
It’s a shocking fact: nine of the 10 states with the highest AIDS fatalities are now in the South. In North Carolina, with the eighth highest...
The 7th Annual Black Health & Healing Summit, organized around the theme “We the People: Exercising Our Power, ”will take place Saturday, April 19 at San...
Stigma is a virus that we all can cure. After 33 years, we now know more about HIV than ever. We have miraculous treatments, which can...
The National Coalition of 100 Black Women’s Oakland Bay Area Chapter recently hosted its 16th Annual Madame C.J. Walker Luncheon at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis...
African Americans make up a disproportionate number of the estimated Americans without access to a healthcare and will experience the most problems when trying to get...
Reversing its previous position, the Oakland Planning and Zoning Department has decided to allow a U.S. Customs Inspection Center to operate in West Oakland. An appeal...
When Anita Schools was diagnosed with HIV in 1998, she was proactive about learning more about the virus and getting treatment. Now as a program coordinator...
According to the latest data released by the Center for Disease Control only 25 percent of people living with HIV in the U.S. have achieved viral...
Touro University California (TUC), an independent, not-for-profit Jewish-sponsored graduate school located on Mare Island in Vallejo, recently announced the opening of its School of Nursing in...
Mental illness has always been a taboo subject in Black communities, kept behind closed doors, viewed as “family business” and swept under the rug. Some say...