Bay Area Study Examines Cell Phones As Global Link To Clean Water, Sanitation
Globally, there are 1 Billion people without safe water, and over 2 Billion without proper sanitation.
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Globally, there are 1 Billion people without safe water, and over 2 Billion without proper sanitation.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is criticizing the Obama administration for its crackdown on California medical marijuana dispensaries.
A laboratory at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been shut down following the weekend death of a researcher that was apparently caused by deadly bacteria he was working with.
A young boy at an East Oakland afterschool center's playground was pricked by a discarded syringe last week. His parents took him to the hospital for treatment to prevent possible infection.
Health officials are trying to determine how a rare strain of bacteria infected and apparently led to the death of a researcher at a Veteran's Affairs infectious diseases lab in San Francisco.
A community of people is measuring and collecting every detail of their lives using new technology, and sharing their findings in the hopes of improving their health and the quality of their life.
Not only are Sutter Health and it's nurses' union at odds over labor issues, but they can't agree on the numbers of nurses that took part in a one-day strike.
A growing number of Americans are choosing to unplug from stressed-out, buzzed-up lives with the help of Yoga - but new research suggests that there are limits to the benefits of the ancient practice.
The maker of Kashi cold cereals is promising to make more of its products GMO-free by 2014, following consumer complaints about genetically modified soybeans in many of Kashi's cereal products.
The labor movement and Occupy have teamed up for some powerful protests this May Day, but unions were apprehensive of initial plans to "shut down" the Golden Gate Bridge.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg says U.S. and U.K. users will be able to enroll as organ donors via links on the world's biggest social networking site.
More than 4,000 registered nurses at 10 Sutter Health hospitals in Northern California are walking off the job in Tuesday's May Day protests.
Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has given two-year-old twins who were born attached at the chest and abdomen and underwent separation surgery six months ago a clean bill of health.
Mayim Bialik, author of "Beyond the Sling" and star of TV show "Blossom," shares her real-life advice as a mom with a Ph.D in neuroscience.
Housecalls by doctors, an old idea that many thought had seen its day, is gaining new traction in San Francisco.
