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The cesarean section is designed to help deliver babies through problem pregnancies, reducing the danger of childbirth for babies and their mothers. But it turns out the increasing popularity of c-section deliveries might be having an unintended consequence.
Earlier this year, an analysis showed...
The global bottled water industry is worth tens of billions of dollars, and a new book is highly critical of it. It's called "Bottled & Sold," and it’s by Peter Gleick. He is co-founder of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland. He's also a...
Last week, the University of California at Berkeley was instructed by the California Department of Public Health to significantly scale back its “Bring your Genes to Cal” program.
That’s the innovative, and controversial, program asking freshmen coming into the College of Letters and Science to...
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Medical advances mean we’re living longer, but we’re also living sicker. Today - according to some estimates - more than five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease: that's more than twice as many as in 1980.
In nursing homes across the country, men and women with dementia are struggling...
Of the couple hundred people gathered in Mosswood Park in Oakland this Saturday, hardly any could stand still. Most danced, and some hula-hooped, to the beats streaming from a small, solar-powered stage. The event that brought everyone together was Fresh Fest: a youth-organized, eco-friendly hip...
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