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California lawmakers have approved a Planned Parenthood-backed bill that would make it illegal to distribute secretly recorded conversations with a health care professional.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis believe they've found a new possible treatment for autism.
There's a lot of cutting edge technology in hospitals these days, but virtual reality headset being tested out at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland are bringing smiles to the faces of medicine's bravest patients.
The University of California, Davis will become home to the first state-funded center in the country dedicated to studying gun violence, the school announced Monday.
Can playing the bagpipes kill you?
Wilder, the star of such comedy classics as "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," has died from Alzheimer's...
A growing number of pediatricians are dismissing families who don't want to vaccinate, and they're now making that move with the blessing of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The Virgin Group boss hit a hump in the road on Virgin Gorda, one of the islands in the Caribbean, catapulting him into the road...
The Golden Gate Bridge District is partnering with Crisis Text Line, a national nonprofit that provides free, 24/7 texting to people in crisis.
Researchers found that people don't grow unhappy with age. In fact, they feel better.
After a furor over what appears to be price-gouging, the drug maker of life-saving EpiPen Auto-Injectors is offering discounts to patients who use them.
An analysis of a child car seat marketed to the public as not containing a cancer-causing flame retardant has found that the car seat indeed tests positive for the carcinogen.
Health officials warn that electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices are poisoning kids with nicotine. But new research suggests that most teens aren't vaping nicotine at all but using sweet and fruity flavors like strawberry, chocolate cake and bubble gum.
Saying she is "disappointed, saddened and deeply concerned" by the price hike of the EpiPen, actress Sarah Jessica Parker has cut ties with the company that makes the emergency allergy treatment...
California health officials are urging recreational water users to avoid contact with waters affected with harmful blue-green algae blooms.
