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1 million low-income Californians could be hurt by Trump family planning rules
1 million low-income Californians could be hurt by Trump family planning rules
More than 1 million low-income Californians could see new barriers to reproductive care under a proposal that the Department of Health and Human Services sent to the White House Friday. ...
The clean-energy home of the future ... outside Fresno
Starting in 2020, California officials want all new houses built in the state to generate their own solar power during the day and sip electricity at night, their energy use cut by highly efficient ...
Glenn Branca, composer who blended genres loudly, dies at 69
NEW YORK — Glenn Branca, a composer who began his musical life playing with influential downtown rock bands in the 1970s, but whose omnivorous musical curiosity soon led him to create a hybrid style — ...
Rhino in San Diego pregnant, could help save subspecies
SAN DIEGO — A southern white rhino has become pregnant through artificial insemination at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park — giving hope for efforts to save a subspecies of one of the world’s most ...
FDA names and shames drugmakers to encourage generic competition
Pharmaceutical companies that spend billions to develop drugs do not want competitors to profit from inexpensive generic copies of blockbuster medicines. So they fight for patent extensions, seek new uses ...
SF to consider banning plastic straws
In San Francisco, plastic drinking straws could soon be going the way of non-reusable shopping bags and Styrofoam containers — that is to say, strictly prohibited within city limits. ...
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NASA to pack a helicopter for its 2020 mission to Mars
By Kenneth Chang
NASA currently has two cars roaming Mars — the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers. But the next mission will carry a vehicle with a new approach for planetary exploration: a helicopter. ...
Eradication of invasive rodent off to a slow start in California
LOS BANOS, Merced County — Before the midday heat had set in, Jeff Cann and Tim Kroeker were out of their Dodge pickup, trudging through waist-deep water in waders and rubber boots. The ...
Data breach affects nearly 900 patients from two San Francisco hospitals
By Catherine Ho
The personal information of nearly 900 patients of San Francisco General and Laguna Honda hospitals was breached after a former employee of one of the hospitals’ vendors got unauthorized access to the ...
Stanley Falkow, who saw how bacteria cause disease, dies
By Gina Kolata
Stanley Falkow, a much-honored Stanford professor who discovered how antibiotic resistance spreads among bacteria and how bacteria cause disease, died on May 5 at his home in Portola Valley. He was 84. ...
Duped patients crowdfund for bogus medical care, study says
By Lindsey Tanner
They’re the tech-age version of donor jars at the diner: crowdfunding websites that aim to link ailing people with strangers willing to help pay for medical treatment. But new research suggests duped ...
Sung from the heart: How a grim diagnosis created beautiful music
By Aidin Vaziri
Bernie Dalton hoped to fulfill a lifelong dream of making an album when he replied to a Craigslist ad for vocal lessons. A surfer living in Santa Cruz, he was helping raise his teenage ...
US moves to shut down 2 big stem cell therapy clinics
By Erin Allday
Federal authorities Wednesday moved to shut down two of the country’s most prominent for-profit providers of stem cell therapy, one of them a network of clinics with more than 100 offices in the United ...
California counties join nationwide lawsuit against opioid manufacturers
By Catherine Ho
Marin is the latest California county to take legal action against opioid manufacturers and distributors, accusing the companies of falsely promoting the safety and efficacy of addictive prescription ...
Solar to be required on most new homes in California starting in 2020
Regulators on Wednesday unanimously approved requiring solar arrays on virtually all new single-family homes built in California starting in 2020, saying the move would fight climate change, reduce air ...
Wolves in Northern California aren’t just loping through anymore; they’re here to stay
Seven years after an Oregon wolf named OR-7 caused an international sensation by taking a historic pilgrimage through California, his offspring are settling in the Golden State, starting families and ...
Trump appoints new EPA head in SF who led ‘lock her up’ chants against Clinton
By Peter Fimrite and Kurtis Alexander
A Santa Barbara County attorney who has fought for farmers and fossil fuels and led the “lock her up” chants in opposition to Hillary Clinton was appointed by the Trump administration Friday to head ...
SF supervisors to question executives on botched Hunters Point soil cleanup
By J.K. Dineen
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will hold its first hearing Monday on the botched billion-dollar cleanup of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The highly anticipated ...
Where California’s candidates for governor stand on fixing health care
By Joe Garofoli
Gov. Jerry Brown never had to decide whether to support single-payer health care because a bill never reached his desk. But just because the Legislature isn’t considering it this year doesn’t mean the ...
UN agency calls for all countries to eliminate trans fat
By Mike Stobbe
NEW YORK — The World Health Organization is calling on all nations to rid foods of artificial trans fat in the next five years. The United Nations agency has in the past pushed to ...
Those needles littering the streets? The city gave them out
For all of City Hall’s tough talk of late about getting needles off the streets, the city itself is responsible for helping fuel the problem — handing out millions of syringes a year with little or no ...
Climate change ruining California’s environment, report warns
Bigger, more intense forest fires, longer droughts, warmer ocean temperatures and an ever shrinking snowpack in the Sierra Nevada are “unequivocal” evidence of the ruinous domino-effects that climate ...
Silicon Valley water agency votes to give $650 mil to Brown’s tunnel project
The South Bay’s largest water agency gave a big lift to Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan for a pair of water conveyance tunnels through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta on Tuesday, committing $650 million ...
Even milder concussions double dementia risk, UCSF study finds
As concern grows over the long-term danger of concussions, San Francisco medical researchers have found that the brain injuries are more potentially debilitating than previously thought, doubling the risk ...
Google sets sights on frontier of artificial intelligence: preventing blindness
By Catherine Ho and Wendy Lee
Scientists in Google’s health division are developing technology they believe can help doctors better diagnose, treat and prevent vision impairment caused by diabetic retinopathy — a common eye disease ...
Proposed California solar mandate could add $10,500 to cost of a house
By David R. Baker and Kurtis Alexander
California may soon become the first state in the nation to require that virtually every new home be equipped with solar panels. The California Energy Commission on Wednesday is expected ...
The clean-energy home of the future ... outside Fresno
Starting in 2020, California officials want all new houses built in the state to generate their own solar power during the day and sip electricity at night, their energy use cut by highly efficient ...
Glenn Branca, composer who blended genres loudly, dies at 69
NEW YORK — Glenn Branca, a composer who began his musical life playing with influential downtown rock bands in the 1970s, but whose omnivorous musical curiosity soon led him to create a hybrid style — ...
Rhino in San Diego pregnant, could help save subspecies
SAN DIEGO — A southern white rhino has become pregnant through artificial insemination at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park — giving hope for efforts to save a subspecies of one of the world’s most ...
FDA names and shames drugmakers to encourage generic competition
Pharmaceutical companies that spend billions to develop drugs do not want competitors to profit from inexpensive generic copies of blockbuster medicines. So they fight for patent extensions, seek new uses ...
SF to consider banning plastic straws
In San Francisco, plastic drinking straws could soon be going the way of non-reusable shopping bags and Styrofoam containers — that is to say, strictly prohibited within city limits. ...