S.F. composers meld sound with science for new perspective on Alzheimer's
Composers at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music teamed up with UCSF neuroscientists to create music that provides a new way to study dementia.
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Composers at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music teamed up with UCSF neuroscientists to create music that provides a new way to study dementia.
The 53-year-old known as the "Düsseldorf Patient" also had cancer and received a bone marrow transplant which replaced his cells with a donor's HIV-resistant stem cells.
"Truth is, [the] pharmaceutical industry is enormously greedy, charging us outrageously, uncontrollably high prices," the senator told "Face the Nation."
A new bill would set the minimum wage for heath workers and support staffers in the state at $25 per hour.
The birth control renders lab mice "temporarily infertile" via a single injectable dose, according to a study published in the medical journal Nature.
A five-year experiment aimed at improving care for some of California's most at-risk Medicaid patients — including the homeless and those with severe drug addictions — resulted in fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits that saved taxpayers an estimated $383 per patient per year, according to a review released Wednesday.
Disease researchers are probing infections in dozens of patients in 11 states and one death linked to the use of artificial tears brand.
In a first-of-its-kind enforcement, the Federal Trade Commission has imposed a $1.5 million penalty on telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx Holdings Inc. for sharing users' personal health data with Facebook, Google and other third parties without their consent.
Thousands of practicing nurses in the U.S. could potentially be working with bogus academic credentials.
Massachusetts has identified two cases so far that were infected by the strain, which appears to have developed some resistance to ceftriaxone.
Many people said they didn't seek treatment last year for serious conditions or illnesses, according to Gallup.
Going for a walk in a park or along a lake or a tree-lined space may reduce the need for medication for anxiety, asthma, depression, high blood pressure or insomnia, a new study found.
The longstanding practice of "watchful waiting," or delaying treatment to see whether children and teens outgrow or overcome obesity, "doesn't work," a leading researcher says.
Ohio's outbreak has already surpassed cases reported to the CDC in 2020 and 2021 combined.
Recently passed government spending bill allows states to kick people off the program as early as April.
Typically, when surgeons are placing stents in children, they use adult stents with a narrow diameter, which then have to be replaced via open heart surgery as the children grow.
Emergency department visits and revisits in children's hospitals that are related to mental health are "increasing rapidly," a new study suggests.
A national average hourly wage of $17.05 is forcing many EMTs out of their jobs.
36 states are seeing elevated levels of RSV cases compared to this time last year.
For the first time in a decade, seniors will pay less next year on monthly premiums for Medicare's Part B plan.
California on Thursday became the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year.
Seniors from one Oak Park high school took a field trip to UC Davis Medical Center, charting their potential careers in the field of medicine.
What could be the nation's first universal health care system found new life on Thursday after California Democrats proposed steep tax hikes to pay for it, prompting strong opposition from insurers, doctors and Republicans at the start of an election year.
Californians have a little more time to purchase health insurance plans that take effect with the new year.
California wants to give more benefits to people living in the country illegally as lawmakers in the state Senate advanced a $214 billion spending proposal Wednesday that would expand health coverage and tax credits for immigrants.
