East Oakland Pharmacy Part Of Pilot Program Offering Free HIV Tests
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is rolling out a pilot program to offer HIV tests at neighborhood pharmacies, including one in East Oakland.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is rolling out a pilot program to offer HIV tests at neighborhood pharmacies, including one in East Oakland.
A closely-watched effort to impose a new tax on tobacco to pay for cancer research in the nation's most populous state has failed by six tenths of a percentage point.
The revised budget agreement between legislative Democrats and Governor Brown calls for the phasing out of California's successful Healthy Families program, which provides state-sponsored, low-cost insurance for children, teens and pregnant mothers.
A group of scientists are keeping a close eye at the health of sea otters off the California coast. They may be cute and furry, but California sea otters are facing a mystery threat.
Known for its artisan pastries and sandwiches, San Francisco-based La Boulange is under the microscope as employees claim that the company has violated the city's ordinance mandating health coverage.
A San Francisco State project that aims to improve acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth has created a new handbook to help reconcile the teachings of the Mormon Church with the needs of an LGBT child.
According to the class action lawsuit, Blue Shield is forcing customers to either pay higher premiums or switch to a worse policy.
If you've spent your life treading lightly on the environment, you'll probably want to give some thought to the impact of your death. Many Californians are going with burials - with a twist - so they can remain green to the grave.
The American Red Cross is especially looking for four blood types: O+, O-, A- and B-, all of which are at critically low levels.
About 4,400 registered nurses at 10 hospitals in the Bay Area managed by Sutter Health are planning a one-day strike on Wednesday to protest concessions that they say management is demanding.
Kidney transplants are taking a quantum leap forward at one Bay Area hospital thanks to a new cloud-based computer program that matches donors with recipients. That new software is precisely how California Pacific Medical Center is suddenly performing simultaneous transplants involving eight to ten patients.
Until Thursday, when all eight people were formally introduced at the hospital on Buchanan Street, the individuals involved did not know for sure who donated to whom.
San Francisco General Hospital celebrated a milestone Tuesday when the final beam was put in place in the city's biggest public works project not set for completion until 2015.
Early election returns show Californians divided on whether to slap an additional $1-per-pack tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products to fund cancer research.
One Bay Area family is celebrating a high school graduation that they never thought they would see thanks to a recent heart transplant at Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
