What a Child Learns From Positive & Negative Video Game Play
Children who repeatedly play violent video games learn thought patterns that will stick with them and influence behaviors as they grow older...
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Children who repeatedly play violent video games learn thought patterns that will stick with them and influence behaviors as they grow older...
A study released in the journal Health Economics casts doubt on claims that soda taxes are an effective way to combat obesity.
Santa Clara County, which has more cases of tuberculosis that most U.S. states, will shift from testing public school students for TB to requiring a "risk assessment" for the disease, officials said.
Electronic cigarettes, which have been touted as way to help regular cigarette smokers kick the habit, may be driving young people toward traditional smoking and nicotine addiction, according to new study by the University of California, San Francisco.
Union officials say a planned strike by thousands of University of California hospital workers has been averted after contract talks yielded a deal.
The practice of smoking electronic cigarettes without any restrictions may soon end in San Francisco under an ordinance unanimously approved by the city's board of supervisors Tuesday afternoon.
A report by the state Department of Public Health has found that Children's Hospital Oakland complied with medical regulatory standards in the handling of a teenage girl declared brain-dead after undergoing tonsil surgery.
An independent commission led by a former U.S. surgeon general has concluded there "is no compelling medical reason" for the U.S. armed forces to prohibit transgender Americans from serving and that President Barack Obama could lift the decades-old ban without approval from Congress, according to a report being released Thursday.
Parents of students at a South Bay high school have been warned about a newly-discovered psychedelic drug after one student overdosed on it and was hospitalized this week.
On average, the number of innings pitched fell among the study group from 59 to 50 per season, while ERA's swelled from 4.15 to 4.74 and WHIP ticked up from 1.40 before the operation to 1.48 after.
Simon & Schuster author Linda Geddes explores and debunks common baby and pregnancy myths here.
Hollywood-style glitz & glamour arrived at a SF fundraiser benefiting sick children…
A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to regulate the state's free-wheeling medical marijuana industry — the farmers that grow the drug, the hundreds of storefront shops that sell it and especially the doctors who write recommendations allowing people to use it.
A state lawmaker who is running for state insurance commissioner said Wednesday that he is suing California's health benefits exchange for wrongly cutting off more than 1 million insurance policies and for what he called wasting taxpayer money on useless marketing campaigns.
30 Spare the Air alerts were issued during the past winter season, with 267 people being cited for violating the no-wood-burning rule.
