California’s system for providing care to the aged and disabled is fragmented, confusing and “woefully unprepared” to handle a future tsunami of seniors from the baby boom generation, a new report concludes.
Sacramento-area law enforcement agencies are partnering with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to combat prescription drug abuse on Saturday by giving people a venue to dispose of unwanted or old prescription pills.
An animal rights group has produced a television commercial charging UC Davis and three other University of California campuses of mistreating monkeys during laboratory research.
In Orlando, a town meeting erupted into near chaos Tuesday as attendees accused a Republican lawmaker of trying to dismantle Medicare while providing tax cuts to corporations and affluent Americans.
Kaiser Permanente and UC Davis Medical Center have stepped up to pay the cost of providing flu shots to Sacramento County’s neediest children.
Sacramento County will be able to hold flu shot clinics for needy children this fall, thanks to donati…
Officials hope to reduce the theft and abuse of prescription drugs by collecting expired or unused pills Saturday.
Micah Gerry’s recovery, according to his doctor, is a miracle and an answer to prayer. Thousands of people who read of his plight on Facebook and responded with prayers from as far away as Africa and Asia would agree.
Micah Gerry reflects on his o…
Potentially dangerous expired, unused or unwanted prescription drugs may be brought to three sites for disposal from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 30.
During Lennie’s life under the microscope, science changed.
Communications director Triana Romero talks to chimps, from left, Millie, Scarlett and Thoto, behind their island at the Save the Chimps sanctuary near Fort Pierce, Fla. Animal rights ac…
Donovan the chimp transformed from a friendly ape who “adapts well to peers” to one who beat his female cage-mate so aggressively they had to be separated.
