Hikers in Placer County warned of ticks spreading Lyme disease
Ticks have tested positive for Lyme disease in Placer County.
UCD medical system forms grief support
Grief support groups are typically tailored to children or adults, but the University of California, Davis, Children's Hospital bereavement program has determined that people at in-between ages sometimes fall through the cracks.
Sutter Health picks new regional president
Sacramento-based Sutter Health has named a new regional president, promoting the head of its Modesto medical center to the post.
Universal health care measure stalls in California Senate
Legislation to create a universal health care system in California stalled in the state Senate Thursday ahead of a key legislative deadline, signaling it will likely fail to advance this year.
Assemblyman Jim Beall, left, author of a bill to broaden mental health care coverage, is congratulated by Assemblyman Mike Gatto as his measure passed Thursday and was sent to the Senate.
Ticks in Placer County test positive for Lyme disease
Ticks have tested positive for Lyme disease in Placer County.
Ticks
Got the wintertime blues? Could be lack of vitamin D
The winter season is upon us, with a lack of daylight hours, cloudy days and temperamental weather. And so we pack on the winter pounds, get the winter blues, and go into relative metabolic hibernation until spring arrives.
A Q&A on benefits and risks of taking aspirin
Many Americans have tossed apples out of that old proverb about what keeps the doctor away, and they've inserted aspirin.
Walnuts slow growth of prostate cancer in mice, UC Davis research shows
New research in mice by UC Davis shows that walnuts slow the growth of prostate cancer.
Walnuts pass through a sorting machine at ShoEi's processing plant in Olivehurst.
BloodSource pact will aid nation of Georgia
BloodSource, the nonprofit blood center, is partnering with Berkeley-based Global Healing to establish a five-year program to improve the safety of blood transfusions on a national scale in the Republic of Georgia.