Sutter Health links with smart phone info app
Sutter Health is collaborating with iTriage, a smart phone application that the health system said gives consumers mobile access to health care information about doctors, hospitals, emergency rooms and medical clinics.
Shakira’s music helps keep Wilton man alive, family says
Tilo Trejo, a 28-year-old Wilton man, has a chromosome disorder that has reduced his mental capacity to that of a 2-year-old. His family says listening to Shakira’s music is a lifeline.
Tilo Trejo of Wilton moves with help from his mother, Rosalia…
Beware stem cell ‘cures,’ doctors say
Bogus cures are nearly as old as human disease, but they have found especially fertile ground in stem cell medicine – new, complex and perhaps dazzlingly promising in the long run.
Public sector workers paying more of their health care costs
Workers in private industry have felt the sting of rising health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs for decades. Now, as government budgets bleed, public employees are starting to share the pain.
Kaiser staff members lead by eye surgeon Louis Klieger, center, do their final check before they perform cataract surgery on 52-year-old Carlos Osmaya of South Sacramento on Friday, May 7, 2010. Kaiser Permanente doctors perform free cataract surgery for 19 uninsured patients today at Kaiser’s eye surgery center in Rancho Cordova. This is the 15th year that more than 50 doctors and staff members donate their time to do the free surgeries.
Teens, young adults abuse OxyContin in Northern California
OxyContin, a highly addictive narcotic that doctors prescribe to treat chronic pain, has hooked the “Just Say No” generation. It has become a party drug favored by young, often middle-class people, and the trend is exploding in Northern California.
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