Bay Area News Group: Berkeley Man Sues Kaiser Permanente, Accuses Medical Assistant Of Sexual Assault During Cancer Surgery A Kaiser Permanente patient filed a lawsuit last week against the ...

A state lawmaker wants health insurers to disclose denial rates and explain those denials as anger grows over rising costs ...

A small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from H5N1, the bird flu strain driving the current U.S. outbreak, ...

Workers At Bird Flu-Testing Lab Might Go On Strike: Employees at the California Animal Health and Food Safety Lab at the University of California, Davis, a key lab for testing animal disease, are ...

Fremont Makes It a Crime To Help Homeless Camps: Over fierce objections, Fremont has approved an ordinance that prohibits camping on all public property and allows prosecutors to criminally charge ...

Flu Deaths Surpass Covid Deaths In California: More people are dying from flu than from covid this winter for the first time since the novel coronavirus started flooding emergency rooms in 2020. At ...

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case brought by conservative Christian abortion opponents seeking to revoke FDA approval of mifepristone, a ...

Telehealth startups including Ro and Nurx are spending millions to promote themselves as easy dispensers of medicines. Some companies offer care for birth control, sexual dysfunction, and more complex ...

Frustrated by spiraling drug costs, California lawmakers want to increase oversight of pharmaceutical industry intermediaries ...

State officials say homes should be able to be cooled to a safe indoor air temperature of 82 degrees. The legislature will ...