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Kristen Hwang CalMatters The high cost of insulin has been a niggling thorn in the side of regulators and patients for decades: Prices for the 100-year-old drug have increased more than 600% in the past 20 years, and stories of patients rationing doses abound. Even the most conservative economists point to...
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Sponsored by Santa Clara County Dental Foundation The San Jose Convention Center will be transformed into Silicon Valley Healthy Smiles, for a two-day FREE dental clinic on Saturday and Sunday, May 20-21, sponsored by the Santa Clara County Dental Foundation. The 100-chair clinic will provide pro bono dental care...
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Plenty of things can make you sweat – hot weather on a summer day, strenuous physical activity or feeling stressed out. But why do you smell worse when you’re stressed compared to after a workout or an afternoon in the sun? What you may not know is that there...
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Hay muchas cosas que pueden hacerla sudar: el calor de un día de verano, una actividad física extenuante o el estrés. Pero, ¿por qué huele peor cuando está estresada que después de hacer ejercicio o de pasar una tarde al sol? Lo que quizá no sepa es que hay...
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When Kansas forcibly rejected an amendment this past August that would have removed the right to abortion from the state’s constitution, the country was stunned—and abortion-rights advocates were ecstatic, seeing in this victory a way forward to secure new and greater protections for abortion access and bodily autonomy by enshrining the...
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Cuando Kansas rechazó por la fuerza una enmienda en agosto pasado que hubiera eliminado el derecho al aborto de la constitución del estado, el país quedó atónito — y los defensores del derecho al aborto estaban extasiados, viendo en esta victoria una forma de avanzar para asegurar nuevas y...
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Peter White Ethnic Media Services El presidente del Departamento de Medicina de la Universidad de California en San Francisco dice que la cantidad de nuevos casos de COVID-19 está disminuyendo, la infecciosidad de las aguas residuales es relativamente baja y las hospitalizaciones están disminuyendo. “El estado de COVID, al...
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Peter White Ethnic Media Services The Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco says the number of new COVID-19 cases is decreasing, wastewater infectiousness is relatively low and hospitalizations are going down. “The state of COVID, at least as far as I can...
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Family Features Since 1965, Medicare has provided health care coverage to millions of Americans. More than 65 million people in the United States were enrolled in Medicare as of February 2023, with more people becoming eligible and enrolling each year. Anyone on Medicare is at risk of Medicare-related fraud,...