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Time for your whooping cough booster?

Whooping cough is on the rise again in California, say state public health officials, with nearly twice as...

As long as the chicken isn't pink...

Mandating help to quit smoking

Lead-tainted love

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Heart attacks down 24% in decade, 62% for worst

Heart attacks down 24% in decade, 62% for worst

A study of more than 46,000 Northern California Kaiser Permanente patients found a significant drop in...

UC nurses to hold protest rallies today

Registered nurses at University of California medical centers and two smaller Southern California...

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Feds take new look at gay blood-donor ban

A federal advisory committee is set to begin hearings today to consider lifting its long-standing policy banning men who have had sex...

Chronicle 6.10.10 4:00 AM

Judge blocks nurses' strike at 5 UC hospitals

Plans by nearly 11,000 nurses to strike Thursday at five University of California medical centers were put on hold Tuesday when a San...

Chronicle 6.9.10 4:00 AM

Christians blamed for anti-gay hatred in Uganda

A leading Anglican bishop who fled Uganda after receiving death threats blamed U.S. Christian evangelical groups Tuesday for fomenting...

Chronicle 6.9.10 4:00 AM

Obama tries to reassure seniors on health care

President Obama sought to sell the health overhaul law to skeptical seniors Tuesday, opening a defense of his presidency's biggest...

Chronicle 6.9.10 4:00 AM

Whitman, Brown set to go toe to toe

The bell just rang on the slugfest between billionaire Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown for the state's top job, and...

Chronicle 6.9.10 4:00 AM

FDA questions safety of multiple sclerosis drug

Novartis' drug Gilenia has risks that may outweigh its benefit in treating multiple sclerosis, according to U.S. regulators reviewing...

Chronicle 6.9.10 4:00 AM

San Francisco should use Laura's Law

On San Francisco's streets, they are a familiar sight: wandering lost souls, clearly mentally ill and a danger to themselves and even...

Chronicle 6.8.10 4:00 AM

City Brights

Arizona Emotional Intelligence

Against the backdrop of a rapid decline of California whites into the minority, and with a California...

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Heroes among us - and your chance

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