Phasing In The Affordable Care Act
As challenges to the President's health care reform continue, so does the implementation of the law. New provisions of the Affordable Care Act include a focus on insurance companies.
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As challenges to the President's health care reform continue, so does the implementation of the law. New provisions of the Affordable Care Act include a focus on insurance companies.
On Linda Johnson's December 29th visit to the Stanford Blood Center she became a member of a very exclusive club.
Among the new state laws going into effect in the new year is one that mandates nursing homes place their federal rating in a visible location within the facility.
Unsafe levels of bacteria detected at four beaches in San Mateo County this week have prompted health officials to order temporary closures.
A record low number of Californians are still lighting up, with Marin County the lowest in the state with just 7.3 percent of the population smoking.
According to a published report, similar violations occurred at a half dozen other American medical schools.
As marijuana goes mainstream in communities across California, the state's third-largest city has become the next big battleground over the drug's future.
A California mother of two and The Center for Science in the Public Interest are suing McDonald's Corp. to get the fast-food chain to stop using toys to market meals to young children.
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has approved legislation that would force pharmaceutical companies to set up programs for the public to turn in unused drugs.
One comes with a prescription, the other with a warning from the Surgeon General. Gloria in San Francisco asked this Good Question: Is smoking marijuana as harmful to your lungs as smoking tobacco?
Many insurance companies plan to increase their premiums ahead of state and federal reforms that take effect with the new year.
If you haven't already done so, county health officials around the Bay Area say now is the time to get your flu shot.
Construction was slated to begin Monday on the new UCSF Women's Children's and Cancer Hospital at Mission Bay. However, the university still had the daunting task of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to build the new complex.
San Francisco's legislation prohibiting toys from fast-food meals that don't meet certain nutritional standards may get a light-hearted skewering soon on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."
