Obese Livermore Man's Plea For Help Goes Viral
A 700-pound Livermore man's plea for help to lose weight has become a viral sensation on YouTube in less than 24 hours.
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A 700-pound Livermore man's plea for help to lose weight has become a viral sensation on YouTube in less than 24 hours.
She was inspired at least in part by an event in her own life: When she was 17 months old, she was run over by a car and suffered a collapsed lung and a severed liver, and needed blood transfusions
Health insurance premiums for more than 300,000 Blue Shield customers in California went up eight percent under a rate increase that took effect Thursday.
In vitro fertilization can be priceless for those who want a child. But more than half the time, it isn't successful. Despite long odds, a Bay Area doctor is having amazing results.
Santa Clara County's Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to approve the strictest nutrition standards in the country.
Exercise programs that make bold claims is nothing new. But a new kind of workout has grabbed the attention of Bay Area athletes, rescuers and NASA scientists.
In the last two months, nearly 30 schools in Contra Costa County have seen outbreaks of the stomach virus this winter.
Doctors are seeing an increase in adults with no childhood history of allergies sneezing, wheezing and coughing. A growing number of adults are developing what's called adult onset allergies.
A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly backed approval for a highly anticipated anti-obesity pill from Vivus Inc., a drug which the FDA previously rejected due to safety concerns.
A diet drug developed by a Bay Area company gets a second chance in front of the FDA.
The LipoSonix System is a method of non-invasive waist circumference reduction. It uses special technology called HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound) to kill fat cells that lie one to two centimeters below the skin's surface.
Scientists at the UC Davis Center for Comparative Medicine are developing a vaccine against salmonella, the increasingly antibiotic-resistant bacteria that kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide each year.
10 of the 15 cities within Santa Clara County have signed a resolution urging the legislative bodies to step up in this regard.
A local Bay Area vocational school is being shutdown by state regulators amidst claims of misleading students with false accreditation. The move follows a recent CBS 5 ConsumerWatch investigation.
Implanted medicine is a hot field, aiming to help patients better stick to their meds and to deliver those drugs straight to the body part that needs them.
