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The Mercury News - Health

US lawmakers slam UnitedHealth's cybersecurity, call the company 'a monopoly on steroids'

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Your cellphone may be causing nearsightedness, now at epidemic levels

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Melissa McCarthy defends Barbra Streisand's Ozempic comment on social media

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Is this refinery-turned-housing-development a model for reclaiming contaminated sites?

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Opinion: Does social media rewire kids' brains? Here's what science really says

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Arizona Legislature repeals Civil War-era abortion ban

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Census change will lead to more data on health of Middle Eastern, North African people in US

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Bird flu's disturbing new turn into cattle - are California herds safe?

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Congress likely to kick the can on COVID-era telehealth policies

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Who's dying now? Here's how recent COVID deaths compare to the early months of the pandemic in California

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After pandemic pause, Caltech restores standardized testing requirement for incoming undergrads

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The path to a better tuberculosis vaccine runs through Montana

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Four years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists

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Bay Area health officials urge vaccination amid measles rise

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Needle pain is a big problem for kids. One Bay Area doctor has a plan

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Opinion: How should we deal with COVID now?

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California strikes deal for cheaper overdose-reversing medication

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California is joining with a New Jersey company to buy a generic opioid overdose reversal drug

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Dozens of deaths reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police

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Walmart, M.D.: Why the world's largest retailer wants to be America's doctor

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Move over, fentanyl? Stimulant overdose deaths are rising fast

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'Women are scared and angry:' The reality of the Florida's new six-week abortion law sets in

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Florida's 6-week abortion ban takes effect

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Tufekci: This may be our last chance to halt bird flu in humans and we are blowing it

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DEA will move to reclassify marijuana as a less-dangerous drug

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Mammograms should start at 40, panel says, as breast cancer rates rise in younger women

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