About 150 healthcare workers and nurses are picketing outside Kaiser’s South Sacramento campus this afternoon, one of many similar demonstrations today at Kaiser Permanente’s California facilities over stalled labor negotiations.
As the morning fo…
The federal government has chosen Sacramento as one of 15 counties this year to provide an in-depth portrait of the nation’s nutrition levels and overall health.
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Health care providers are increasingly using alternative primary care settings, especially urgent care clinics, to capture an after-hours market and divert traffic from emergency rooms to control rising medical costs.
Physician assistant Jermaine …
Jeanada Nolan left her family an extraordinary gift: She planned and expressed her end-of-life wishes. But while many Americans say they want to die without aggressive medical care, that’s often not what happens.
Attorney Tom Nolan and his wife, S…
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 broad…
Sacramento-based Sutter Health has named a new regional president, promoting the head of its Modesto medical center to the post.
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.
Ticks have tested positive for Lyme disease in Placer County.
Several legal forms are available online for Californians to download and fill out to make their end-of-life wishes clear to family members and emergency health providers.
A team of researchers at UC Davis has pioneered a technique to use stem cells to smother the genetic problem that causes Huntington’s disease.
