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The Mercury News - Health

A fungus that can cause severe infections is spreading across US. Doctors explain risks

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Patients wary of governments, companies pushing AI as a rural healthcare solution

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Congo's Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases as it outpaces response efforts at unprecedented speed

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'She died by design': Grieving mothers condemn Meta as trial begins in Oakland

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Flight attendants and pilots have highest risk of dying from radiation-linked cancers, study says

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A look at major lawsuits against Meta and other social media companies over harms to kids

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

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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

13 days ago

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

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Jarvis: Trump's vaccine order puts parents in a bind

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

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

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

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

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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: Consequences will outlast Trump's war

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Letters: San Jose City Council must restore land-use sanity

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

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

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