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Health insurers across the nation are pushing back against healthcare reform by raising premiums for individuals and small businesses…
Californians have it especially rough when it comes to health insurance rate hikes. Health Net Inc. is the state’s latest insurer to raise its premiums by double-...
Are you an organ donor? Have you thought about organ donation at all? It’s a heavy subject, especially when you factor in what it means: you die, you give your body parts to someone else -- it’s a very personal decision to make.
But, consider this: according to the California Transplant Donor...
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama made health care reform a reality.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Tonight, after nearly 100 years of talk and frustration, after decades of trying, and a year of sustained effort and debate, the United States Congress finally declared that America’s workers and...
Yesterday, a U.S. district judge halted all federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. The decision could return the field to that of the Bush administration…
Civil rights groups in California have some strong opinions about federal policy as well. Many organizations feel that...
Bay Area homeowners beware: some real estate experts are saying that home ownership will never again be as valuable as it was before the housing market peaked in 2005.
As if this wasn't enough bad economic news, the number of restaurants operating nationally dropped this year for the...
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...
The national health care reform package will have a big impact on the economy, yet many Americans are still out of work, and not just newcomers to the job market.
There are some two million adults in the US who are 55 years or older and unemployed. They’ll spend an average of...
If you take the train or the freeway south this weekend, through the Peninsula, into the South Bay, and you end up in Santa Clara, you’ll be just in time for a very special, first of its kind event. This weekend is the first annual convention of the SETI Institute, SETI is short for “Search for...
The Environmental Protection agency will review a strawberry fumigant for its toxic effects on farm workers and people who live near agricultural fields. State legislators are also pushing to postpone introduction of the fumigant called methyl iodide, for one year so they...
For many San Franciscans, what happened with the International Hotel and Manilatown became a symbol of the urban casualties that can come with redevelopment. But for the Filipino community, whose members occupied most of the units in the original I-Hotel, the event has been a lasting inspiration to...
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