Pesticide Caused Kids' Brain Damage, California Lawsuits Say
Lawsuits filed Monday in California seek potential class-action damages from Dow Chemical and its successor company over a widely used bug killer linked to brain damage in children.
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Lawsuits filed Monday in California seek potential class-action damages from Dow Chemical and its successor company over a widely used bug killer linked to brain damage in children.
California on Friday reported a resident of San Luis Obispo County died from complications of the West Nile virus, the first fatality this year attributed to the mosquito-born microbe.
After decades of work with Santa Clara County Department of Public Health, Dr. Marty Fenstersheib's storied career is coming to an end as the COVID-19 pandemic eases.
State public health officials announced Friday that they will release updated guidance for the fall school semester next week encouraging schools to return to full in-person classes.
Vaccinated teachers and students don't need to wear masks inside school buildings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines.
A former scientist with South San Francisco-based Genentech and her husband pleaded guilty to stealing company secrets and sharing them with competitors, federal authorities said.
A mask mandate returned for lawmakers and staff who work in the Capitol building after around nine people -- four who had been vaccinated -- tested positive for COVID-19 last week.
California is poised to approve reparations up to $25,000 to victims who were among the thousands of people — some as young as 13 — who decades ago were sterilized because state officials deemed them unfit to have children.
CC Sabathia's left arm has taken him from the streets of Vallejo to the mound at Yankee Stadium. But his on-the-field success came with off-the-field heartbreak.
California lawmakers will wait until next year to continue considering a bill that would give opioid users a place to inject drugs in supervised settings, the bill's author said Tuesday.
Health experts believe the state's high vaccination rate will protect Californians from a surge that we saw after last Fourth of July when cases and deaths spiked dramatically.
Public health officials say increased travel and social gathering over the 4th of July holiday will likely lead to a modest uptick in COVID-19 cases, but not more hospitalizations.
About 7,550 out of more than 19.5 million Californians who were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 have contracted the disease, a minuscule percentage that provides strong evidence of the vaccines' effectiveness, according to state data.
On Friday, Santa Clara County health leaders announced a drop in its COVID-19 death toll by nearly a quarter after it refined its approach in reporting the data.
Santa Clara County's Department of Public Health has redefined the way it counts COVID-19 deaths in the county, which has brought the total death toll down by 22 percent.
