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Menlo Park Biotech Hexagon Bio Lands $62M to Push Cancer Drug to Trials
Menlo Park's Hexagon Bio closed a $62 million Series C to push HEX-360, a HER2-targeting cancer drug, toward 2027 human trials.
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San Francisco Alzheimer's Walk Draws 2,000-Plus, Raises Over $1.2 Million
More than 2,000 people filled Bayfront Park in Mission Bay on Saturday for the annual San Francisco Walk to End Alzheimer's, an event that pulled in more than $1.2 million for research, support and care programs aimed at a disease that touches…
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UCSF Surgeon’s Living Donations Include a Kidney and Part of a Liver
Living donation is not limited to kidneys: donors may also give part of a liver, lung or pancreas, according to the federal Health Resources and Services Administration. A person who donates to someone they do not know is making what…
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Daly City Nurse Beat Breast Cancer 3 Times in 39 Years, Now Helps Others Fight
Asuncion Balon has survived breast cancer three separate times over the course of 39 years, and the Daly City woman has spent much of that time turning her own fight into a mission to help others facing the same diagnosis. A…
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UCSF surgeon has spent his career transplanting organs – he's also donated two
18 years after donating a kidney while in medical school, Dr. Charles Rickert has once again stepped up to save a life. Garvin Thomas reports. Over the course of his medical career, UCSF transplant surgeon Dr. Chuck Rickert has been involved…
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Two Active TB Cases Tied to San Francisco's Crazy Horse Strip Club
San Francisco's Department of Public Health is investigating two active cases of tuberculosis connected to The Crazy Horse, a strip club that has operated on Market Street for more than three decades. The agency confirmed it is looking into cases…
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Potential TB cluster linked to SF strip club under investigation
Crazy Horse on Market Street in San Francisco, Jan. 10, 2008. The San Francisco Department of Public Health is investigating two cases of active tuberculosis linked to a local strip club. The first case was reported in early October, and it’s not…
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2 active tuberculosis cases linked to San Francisco strip club, officials say
Thursday, the San Francisco Department of Public Health confirmed it is looking into two active cases of tuberculosis “associated with The Crazy Horse establishment in San Francisco.” Alyssa Goard reports. Thursday, the San Francisco Department of Public Health confirmed it…
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YMCA Of Greater San Francisco Directs Over $120 Million Toward Community Health And Wellness Programs
The organization serves more than 130,000 people annually across 131 program sites in San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin counties. Its initiatives focus on improving access to essential services, reducing barriers to participation, and creating opportunities for residents of different ages and…
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San Francisco health officials report city's first deadly overdose involving MGM-15
San Francisco health officials are warning about the city’s first reported deadly overdose involving a powerful new opioid. Pete Suratos reports. San Francisco health officials are warning about the city's first reported deadly overdose involving a powerful new opioid. It…
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