4+ hour, 16+ min ago   (211+ words) Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Friday that aims to strengthen suicide prevention efforts for boys and young men. Assembly Bill 1956, introduced by Assemblymember Avelino Valencia, D-Anaheim, directs the state Office of Suicide Prevention to focuses special attention on suicide…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1045+ words) Kennedy, then a prominent anti-vaccine activist, preceded the visit with a letter to the Samoan prime minister requesting to study the Pacific island nation’s measles, mumps and rubella vaccines after the deaths of two children who had received them. In…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (451+ words) The massive hospital, a New Orleans landmark that long cared for the city's most vulnerable residents, was shuttered after the last patients and staff were rescued in 2005. Now, as Louisiana marks the storm's 21st anniversary Saturday, the long-vacant storm-damaged building is…...

4+ day, 9+ min ago   (405+ words) One baby of the 15 who were in the nursery at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences was rescued, the hospital said. Television footage showed rescue workers using ladders to reach the third-floor nursery through broken windows. Grieving parents and relatives…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (579+ words) Three more areas of the Imperial Beach coastline were closed late last week due to an ongoing sewage crisis so bad it can be seen from space. On Thursday, the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health and Quality announced…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (725+ words) “We can only do the bare minimum,” WFP acting executive director Carl Skau said Wednesday during a visit to a nutrition center on the outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu. “We’re only providing these nutrition supplies to the children that are…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (150+ words) SFGATE California Medicine Scholars is expanding its physician pathway program to the Bay Area and Los Angeles as the state faces continued physician shortages and health care disparities in underserved communities, California Community Colleges announced earlier this month. The program,…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (1010+ words) As schools reopen amid a national surge in measles cases, California students will continue to follow the state's existing vaccination requirements, despite President Donald Trump's latest effort to change the country's childhood vaccine schedule. California has the authority to determine…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (573+ words) The ban, imposed over concerns about a flesh-eating parasite known as the New World screwworm fly, dealt a blow to cattle and beef industries on both sides of the border, exacerbating a livestock shortage in the U.S. and hurting a Mexican…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (201+ words) SFGATE The 16,250 doses arrived at the N’djili International Airport in the capital, Kinshasa, late Friday, as part of 70,000 doses expected from the World Health Organization and partners that were announced on Thursday More doses are expected early next week…...