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The Mercury News - Health

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

20 days ago

Bay Area health officials urge vaccination to prevent measles outbreak

22 days ago

Will vaccine boosters be necessary as measles spreads nationwide?

24 days ago

Would hunters take a Lyme disease vaccine? We asked

1 month ago

Congo says 2,000 people have died in its Ebola outbreak, the fastest-growing on record

2 days ago

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

3 days ago

Earlier lifeline for rural hospitals faces test under 'Big Beautiful' law

22 hours ago

Could GLP-1s curb problem drinking? VA is finding out

22 hours ago

Trump's vaccine plan would require millions of individual shots last used decades ago

22 hours ago

Rise in US preteen suicide rate alarms mental health experts

1 day ago

Fact check: Trump makes false claims as he signs order about childhood vaccines

2 days ago

Trump's vaccine order hands some MAHA voters a win. It also gives Democrats an attack line

1 day ago

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

3 days ago

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

8 days ago

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

15 days ago

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

24 days ago

Marin County dementia drug startup gets venture capital infusion

1 month 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

Letters: Stan's, Randy's make Santa Clara doughnut heaven

2 days ago

Pediatricians and health departments sidestep Trump's CDC on vaccine guidance

2 days ago