Facebook To Make It Easier To Become Organ Donor
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.
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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.
A college professor and mother of two with a serious illness said a Bay Area hospital denied potentially life-prolonging treatment, despite approval from her insurance company.
The mad cow that was recently discovered through routine testing in Central California had been euthanized after it became lame and started lying down at a dairy.
While several states have placed new restrictions on abortion, a new bill would allow more health professionals in California to perform the procedure.
A spokesman for U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes of California said the sick 5-year-old came from Tulare County, the No. 1 dairy-producing county in the nation.
The first new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. since 2006 has been discovered in a dairy cow in California's Central Valley, but health authorities said Tuesday the animal never was a threat to the nation's food supply.
The owner of San Francisco Chinatown's Sam Wo restaurant, has been given a "to-do" list, iin order to re-open the storied eatery, which closed Friday for code violations. Long-time customers of the restaurant turned out in force at a public health department hearing Tuesday morning to offer support.
A new pest has reared its ugly head in Southern California, and is so nasty that vector control officials here in the Bay Area are taking steps to halt any northern migration.
What do hospitals charge to remove an appendix? The startling answer is that it could be the same as the price of a refrigerator—or a house.
Men living north of the Golden Gate have the highest life expectancy in the nation at 81.6 years, according to a study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
Since 2007, the VA has experienced a 35 percent increase in the number of veterans receiving mental health services.
