California ready to fund its own manufacturing of low cost insulin
A vial of insulin cost $25 in 1995, back when Chris Noble was 5 years old and just learning how to manage his Type 1 diabetes with the help of his parents and his doctors.
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A vial of insulin cost $25 in 1995, back when Chris Noble was 5 years old and just learning how to manage his Type 1 diabetes with the help of his parents and his doctors.
A project monitoring the spread of COVID-19 in the Bay Area via wastewater is now expanding its efforts to also watch the ongoing monkeypox outbreak.
San Francisco officials on Thursday announced they are declaring a public health emergency over monkeypox that will go into effect on August 1.
Elizabeth Cook reports on San Francisco's decision to declare a public health emergency over the monkeypox virus (7-28-22)
BART's Board of Directors voted Thursday to reinstate a face mask requirement on BART trains effective immediately.
Santa Clara health officials announced Wednesday they were expecting the arrival of more than 700 doses of monkeypox vaccine as the number of cases in the county has grown to 39.
Roughly 80 percent of current COVID-19 test results go unreported due to the widespread use of rapid at-home tests, according to preliminary data from an ongoing UCSF study.
Napa County health officials announced Tuesday that they are investigating the county's first probable case of monkeypox.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued an advisory Sunday, saying smoke from the Oak Fire in Mariposa County near Yosemite will drift into Bay Area skies on Monday.
Health officials in Marin County are again advising residents and visitors to wear high-quality masks as the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of omicron dominate the county's COVID-19 samples.
The World Health Organization says the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an "extraordinary" situation that now qualifies as a global emergency.
The first two cases of monkeypox in children have now been confirmed and one of those cases is a toddler from California.
With San Francisco's ongoing monkeypox outbreak, on Friday officials announced the city lacks sufficient vaccine supply for the number of people who need it.
One case is in an infant who is a California resident and another is in a toddler who is not a U.S. resident, the CDC said.
A portion of Milpitas will be sprayed with insecticide Saturday night after the Santa Clara County Vector Control District confirmed the presence of mosquitoes that tested positive for West Nile virus, the vector district announced Friday.
