Measles is making a comeback in California and nationally, and that has state public health officials concerned. They are urging anyone who hasn’t been vaccinated to do it now. While the numbers seem small—13 cases were reported for this year to date, seven of those cases were reported since April. And 2010’s total of 27 measles cases compares to just nine for 2009. The 13 cases this year were scattered ......
San Francisco has many interesting residents and none more fascinating, perhaps, than the coyotes who have for the last few years taken up residence in Golden Gate Park and other patches of parkland around the city. For some human residents, coyotes are fascinating and appealing neighbors. For others, they are frightening. But according to the city Recreation and Park Department, they are here to stay, so the best strategy is ......
A free screening clinic for skin cancers will be held Saturday, May 7, at the Chinatown Public Health Center, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is organized by the Center and the Board of Supervisors with the UCSF dermatology department, which is sending a team of physicians and residents to do the exams. The doctors will be looking for different kinds of melanomas, including those that Asians are ......
Contra Costa County health officials are warning of that the number of whooping cough cases could set a record this year. They have scheduled free immunization clinics for residents who are patients at county health centers. So far in 2011, there have been 78 reported cases of whooping cough, which is also called pertussis, in the county. Statewide there have been 733. In 2010, the county had 205 cases of ......
A state health agency Friday scolded Anthem Blue Cross for declaring that it will proceed with health insurance premium rate hikes of 14 to nearly 17 percent for individual policy holders, reports the Sacramento Business Journal. The rate hikes are scheduled to go into effect May 1 and will affect about 120,000 people with certain health plans that are managed by the state Department of Managed Health Care, the agency ......
