CVS pulling some of the most popular cold medicines from store shelves
CVS won't sell decongestants that contain phenylephrine as the only active ingredient after an FDA panel called the ingredient ineffective.
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CVS won't sell decongestants that contain phenylephrine as the only active ingredient after an FDA panel called the ingredient ineffective.
UC Davis is releasing findings from a study of how brain changes during puberty can impact how men and women respond to stress. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at reasons males and females process stress differently.
The expression "you snooze, you lose," may not hold true when it comes to trying to grab those few extra minutes of sleep in the morning.
The wage increase for health care workers reflects a carefully crafted compromise in the final days of the legislative session between the health care industry and labor unions to avoid some expensive ballot initiative campaigns.
The FDA is planning to propose a ban on certain hair-straightening products, such as chemical relaxers and pressing products, that have been linked to health risks, according to an entry in the Unified Agenda, which lists actions that administrative agencies plan to issue.
More Californians with mental illness and addiction issues that are untreated could be detained against their will and forced into treatment under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. It's a move to help overhaul the state's mental health system and address its growing homelessness crisis.
A new report states that the number of people who die from stroke worldwide will jump 50% by 2050 if no significant action is taken to limit the prevalence of stroke and its risk factors.
Olympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton has pneumonia and is in intensive care in a Texas hospital.
A group of U.S. senators visiting Beijing are expressing hope that they had opened the door ever so slightly to government talks with China on its role in the fentanyl crisis ravaging America.
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that will make California the first state to ban four food additives commonly used in cereal, soda and candy.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have made free condoms available to all public high school students.
It's estimated that 50 million Americans deal with dry eyes, and until recently, there were not a lot of really great treatment options. An FDA-approved technique is good for both your eyes and skin.
A new one-stop shop for health services for the homeless is now open in Sacramento.
A Modesto woman is getting a second chance thanks to a life-saving transplant. Now with a new heart, she's got a message to share with others in a similar situation.
Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Chandler Jones has been arrested on accusations of violating a domestic violence temporary protection order, authorities said.
Federal health advisors voted 17-1 against an experimental treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease dubbed NurOwn, although the FDA is not bound by the vote.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Wednesday that aims to stop other states from prosecuting doctors and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to patients in places where the procedure is banned.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several bills aimed at bolstering the state's protections for LGBTQ+ people.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued an anti-abortion group and a chain of anti-abortion counseling centers, saying the organizations misled women when they offered them unproven treatments to reverse medication abortions.
Sacramento's top prosecutor is suing the city's leaders over failure to clean up homeless encampments, escalating a monthslong dispute with leaders in California's capital city.
This Suicide Prevention Month, California is awarding over $16 million in youth suicide-prevention efforts. That's along with grants to tribal and community organizations with the same mission. And with kids headed back to school, California announced it created a new youth suicide prevention hub and a back-to-school mental health hub.
Johnson & Johnson is signing off on a new logo, more than 130 years after creating the old one.
Government advisers say the leading decongestant used by millions of Americans to treat nasal congestion doesn't actually work.
Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising.
Turkish officials say an American researcher who was pulled out of a deep Turkish cave after becoming too sick to climb out on his own is doing well in a Turkish hospital.
