Sacramento summer program for students aims to increase diversity in healthcare
The program is tackling the barriers that can often prevent students from pursuing healthcare professions.
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The program is tackling the barriers that can often prevent students from pursuing healthcare professions.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats who control the state Legislature have agreed on how to spend $310.8 billion over the next year, endorsing a plan that covers a nearly $32 billion budget deficit without raiding the state's savings account.
Many women's concerns now extend beyond abortion access to health and reproductive care.
Adults ages 19 to 64 in the United States should be screened for anxiety disorders, according to a new recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force released Tuesday.
Some states have significantly higher rates of depression than others, a new report finds.
Researchers say they have been able to tap a new pool of organ donors to preserve and transplant their hearts: people whose hearts have stopped beating, resulting in so-called circulatory death.
A Sacramento viewer said she went in for an endoscopy and was charged for a colonoscopy. It was time to call Kurtis to investigate.
The 26-year-old actor discussed the impact the challenging role of his new series "The Crowded Room" has had on his personal life.
US health officials may soon ask states to notify them of any cases of infants with serious infections caused by Cronobacter sakazakii, bacteria that can contaminate infant formula.
One Sacramento-area nurse has made it his mission to diversify his field of healthcare. For Carter Todd, a nurse manager at Kaiser Roseville and former PICU nurse, it's a passion.
Drugmaker HRA Pharma wants to sell birth control pills without a prescription.
Majority of respondents remain pessimistic about the economy as a whole, according to Primerica survey.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement the Justice Department "strongly disagrees" with the decision from an appeals court.
The court maintained access to mifepristone for the time being but is only letting it be dispensed after a doctor's office visit, not by mail, and up to seven weeks into a pregnancy, not 10.
The White House said a proposed rule would allow DACA recipients to qualify for Medicaid and coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
Rates of syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea all rose in the U.S. in 2021, according to the latest CDC data.
California secured about two million pills, while Massachusetts purchased about 15,000.
In the 12-month period ending in Oct. 2022, the United States recorded 101,750 overdose deaths, primarily from opioids.
Since its passage in 2010, the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, has helped cut the U.S. uninsured rate nearly in half, a new report says.
The rate at which women — particularly Black and Hispanic women — die while pregnant, during or soon after childbirth in the U.S. was a concern even before the pandemic.
"Trying to remain a positive person & hide the pain has been a very long road," Irwin wrote on Instagram.
People who consumed foods from the plant-based Mediterranean and brain-focused MIND diets had fewer of the hallmark signs of Alzheimer's — sticky beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain — when autopsied, a new study found.
Elite athletes who have been diagnosed with genetic heart disease may be safe to continue to participate in their sport.
Science says we need to cut back on sugar but how can we do it efficiently?
Two local heart transplant recipients are sharing the story of how they found partnership in pain.
