Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital unveils solar power system

Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital is proving that going green will improve its bottom line.

Some of the 3,000 solar panels in Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital’s new energy source fill a field. Other panels in the $6 million project are positioned above an …

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Insurance program to disenroll children because of funding cut

Heavy cuts in funding are forcing an insurance program for local low-income children to disenroll 680 youths ages 6 to 18 from coverage by Sunday.

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Virus sickened monkeys and UC Davis researcher, report reveals

It’s the stuff of doomsday movies: A new virus jumps from animals to people, with ominous possibilities.

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Dental van begins serving low-income children in El Dorado County

Starting in South Lake Tahoe, a mobile dental clinic began serving kids in El Dorado County this week.

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Stem cell grants totaling $9.7 million go to UC Davis researchers

Two UC Davis Medical School physicians were awarded $9.7 million in state funding this week to study how stem cells could improve the healing of wounds in diabetics and, in separate research, discover an alternative to liver transplants.

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Judge: California needs U.S. approval to halt some Medicaid services

A Sacramento federal judge has ordered the state to keep providing adult dental, podiatric and chiropractic services to poor people in underserved rural areas until it gets permission from federal heath authorities to discontinue the benefits.

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Teen chewing tobacco use putting baseball in a pinch

San Francisco Giants slugger Pat Burrell sneaks a pinch in the dugout – his lower lip swollen with a wad of chaw in his TV close-ups.

San Francisco Giants left fielder Pat Burrell (9) waits for batting practice for game three of the National …

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Man with rare disorder meets his Colombian idol — Shakira — at Arco

As thousands of Shakira fans packed Arco Arena Tuesday night, 28-year-old Tilo Trejo briefly met the Colombian pop star his family believes inspires him to keep living.

Tilo Trejo prepares to leave his Wilton home Tuesday for the Shakira concert …

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Former Levi executive to join Sutter board

Businessman Peter Jacobi will join the board of directors of Sacramento-based nonprofit Sutter Health in 2011.

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Bee exclusive: 2 neighborhoods highest in infant deaths

It’s a grim distinction no community would want. In our own backyard, in the Sacramento neighborhoods of south Oak Park and Del Paso Heights, babies have been dying at the highest rate in all of urban California.

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cuddles 5-month-old…

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