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The Mercury News - Health

Will vaccine boosters be necessary as measles spreads nationwide?

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Would hunters take a Lyme disease vaccine? We asked

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What is Proposition 38 before California voters in the 2026 election?

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California sets aside $250 million for public hospitals. Bay Area officials say it falls far short

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Brad Pitt says he's drinking again and it's not a problem. What experts say

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Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups' guidance

20 hours ago

Santa Cruz County launches pilot program to use steam in place of fumigants to grow berries

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Trump officials propose new scrutiny of food additives and ingredients

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Tanning is getting hot again. Here's what it really does to your skin

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Letters: Rand Paul and Senate GOP's witch hunt ignores Constitution

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Senate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer COVID questions

5 days ago

Fauci repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a contentious Senate committee hearing

12 days ago

COVID-19 levels run high in Bay Area wastewater, prompting calls for precautions

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Bay Area health officials urge vaccination to prevent measles outbreak

19 days ago

'Wild West' of untested peptides has Americans paying in crypto to get their fix

21 days ago

Marin County dementia drug startup gets venture capital infusion

28 days ago

Lawsuit claims Stanford injected woman with wrong imaging dye, and now she can barely walk

1 month ago

Prolific East Bay innovator of common medical devices dies at age 90

2 months ago

WHO says Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak started months before it was declared

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Program points up differences in how Europeans colonized East, West coasts

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