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A $15 million grant has been awarded to UC Berkeley's School of Public Health to study the impact of the...

New antipsychotic drugs still pose heart risk

Newer antipsychotic drugs are no safer than older ones for the risk of suddenly dying from a heart...

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Apple's Jobs to take extended medical leave

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will take a medical leave of absence until June to address health problems that he says are "more complex" than...

Chronicle 1.14.09 3:12 PM

Stents overused in heart patients, study says

A new study gives fresh evidence that many people with clogged heart arteries are being treated too often with stents, and that a...

Chronicle 1.15.09 4:00 AM

VA told to explain medical care software flaws

The top Republican on the House Veterans Affairs Committee demanded Wednesday that the VA explain how it allowed software glitches to...

Chronicle 1.15.09 4:00 AM

House votes to expand children's health program

Congress took the first small step Wednesday toward what Democrats promise will produce universal health care coverage for the first...

Chronicle 1.15.09 4:00 AM

STDs on the rise - chlamydia cases set record

Sexually spread diseases - for years on the decline - are on the rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting a record, government...

Chronicle 1.14.09 4:00 AM

Toe-bit albino gator to be pulled for checkup

Claude the albino alligator has a swollen toe on his right front foot, and he's about to get the very best of medical care - even...

Chronicle 1.13.09 4:49 PM

Los Altos Army vet judged insane in armed heist

A 35-year-old Army veteran accused of armed robbery will not face prison time after a Santa Clara County jury on Tuesday found that he...

Chronicle 1.13.09 7:22 PM

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