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The Mercury News - Health

During cold and flu season, the youngest kids really are the germiest

20 days ago

COVID-19 vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumors

20 days ago

How leaders of the MAHA movement benefit from anti-science advocacy and promise profits to industry

21 days ago

Newsom's CARE Court helping fewer than expected in Bay Area

2 days ago

Oakland LGBTQ center reduces services, seeks new funding after losing federal grants over its DEI focus

3 days ago

Santa Rosa man uses CPR to help save wife's life after cardiac arrest: 'A freaking hero'

4 days ago

86,000 University of California workers to strike statewide Nov. 17-18

4 days ago

As infant botulism outbreak expands, ByHeart recalls all baby formula sold across US

9 hours ago

An emerging shutdown deal doesn't extend expiring health subsidies. Here's what could happen to them

20 hours ago

How the Bay Area's last WWII veterans and their families are keeping history alive

21 hours ago

FDA removes long-standing warning from hormone-based menopause drugs

1 day ago

Can a weight loss and diabetes drug treat long COVID?

11 days ago

Common viral infections like flu and shingles can raise your risk of heart attack and stroke, analysis finds

12 days ago

With CDC signoff, CVS says Covid-19 vaccines will be available nationwide without a prescription

1 month ago

CDC stops recommending COVID-19 shots for all, leaves decision to patients

1 month ago

Despite the hoopla, vaccines should be in reach this cough-and-cold season

13 days ago

In one California county, kindergartener vaccination rates dip below herd immunity levels for measles

15 days ago

James Watson dies at 97; co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix shape helped revolutionize scientific research

4 days ago

Opinion: California universities broke the silence of ALS with federal funds — now at risk

7 days ago

FDA says drugmakers have recalled a blood pressure medicine tainted with a cancer-causing chemical

11 days ago