Santa Clara Co. Pilot Program Sends Non-Violent Meth Users To 'Sobering Centers'
Santa Clara County has launched a pilot program to refocus its Sobering Center, once reserved largely for alcoholics, on treatment of meth users.
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Santa Clara County has launched a pilot program to refocus its Sobering Center, once reserved largely for alcoholics, on treatment of meth users.
Judging by the huge turnout, concerns over the coronavirus did not overshadow the popular Chinese New Year Parade, in San Francisco.
As San Francisco prepares for its Chinese New Year parade this weekend, city officials on Thursday announced measures being taken this year to help keep event-goers safe.
Four passengers from the flights evacuating American citizens out of China have been hospitalized with possible symptoms of the coronavirus, a CDC spokesman said Friday.
Despite fears surrounding the novel coronavirus, the Chinese New Year Parade -- San Francisco's biggest party -- is still on for Saturday night.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Thursday that the city will open its first drug sobering center in the Tenderloin neighborhood this spring.
California health officials announced Thursday they have reached agreements with 16 medical laboratories throughout the state to form a diagnostic network for the rapid testing of patients for the coronavirus.
Scientists in the city at the center of China's virus outbreak have applied to patent a drug made by U.S. company Gilead Sciences Inc. to treat the disease.
Two flights with 350 Americans on board arrived early Wednesday at Travis Air Force Base after a flight from China where the death toll continued to rise from a Coronavirus outbreak.
There is no cure for the deadly Wuhan coronavirus, but several big biotech companies are hoping they can treat the symptoms with existing antiviral medications.
New travel restrictions from China took effect on Sunday as Pres. Trump's order to block high-risk passengers from spreading the novel coronavirus to the U.S. were enacted at select screening airports including SFO.
The first treatment for peanut allergies is about to hit the market.
As the nation's 8th case of coronavirus was confirmed on Saturday, Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield was tapped to be one of four U.S. military bases on standby to house overseas travelers who may need to be quarantined.
Apple is temporarily closing its 42 stores in mainland China, one of its largest markets, as the new coronavirus spreads rapidly and the death toll in that country rose to 259 on Saturday.
The Trump administration says it will not allow California to collect a key health care tax on managed care organizations, a decision that could cost the state nearly $2 billion a year for low-income benefits.
