Health

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1882+ words) As I lay on the gurney, the surgery technician wove us through the hospital halls. We seemed to be on an endless series of turns. Every so often, a pair of doors swung open, we’d pass through, then take more…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (164+ words) A new child wellness center opened in downtown Half Moon Bay this week, offering free developmental services for hundreds of children from birth through age 5. The Colibrí Child Wellness Center sits in the La Piazza courtyard, built as part of…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (183+ words) Doctors are sounding the alarm about the early arrival of the flu season and urging people to get their flu shot as soon as possible. Scott Budman reports. Doctors say they are seeing a significand uptick in flu cases, and…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (166+ words) Dennis Pepa, the Daly City musician who co-founded thrash metal pioneers Death Angel in 1982, has revealed he is battling stage 4 duodenal cancer and is racing to raise $150,000 to pay for experimental treatment in Mexico. Pepa was diagnosed with the rare…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (845+ words) Russian plague case isn’t likely to bring another pandemic to California, experts say. A worldwide uproar erupted this week after Russian media outlets reported a lab worker at an anti-plague facility died due to unexplained pneumonia. The mysterious death and…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (340+ words) Health care workers, visitors and anyone else who isn’t a patient will be required to wear masks in patient care areas of certain Sonoma County health facilities starting next month, under a new county health order meant to blunt the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (297+ words) FILE: Palo Alto is a charter city in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, Calif. Rates of enterovirus D68, a respiratory virus that usually causes mild cold-like symptoms in adults but can lead to a rare polio-like illness in small…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (477+ words) Castro's newest wellness center Pause Studio is now open at 2234 Market Street. Pause Studio officially opened September 12, giving Castro fitness fanatics a place to relax, recover, and recharge. Franchise owner Frances Schendle gave Hoodline a tour of the new studio…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (128+ words) About 70 Hospice East Bay workers are beginning a seven-day strike Monday as they fight for a new contract. The caregivers, including nurses, chaplains and bereavement counselors, are striking to bring attention to what their union says is a staffing problem…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1521+ words) Ever since Steven Deeks began treating HIV and AIDS patients at San Francisco General Hospital in 1993, he was drawn into their community and became especially interested in those whose illness didn’t behave as expected. Why did some deteriorate more slowly…...