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| Aug. 19 |
San Pablo |
Hospital Fined Following Patient Deaths Doctors Medical Center is fined $50,000 for actions by staff that the state public health department claims led to the deaths of 2 patients
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| Aug.2 |
Marin County |
County to ban tobacco at pharmacies County health officials are working on a plan to ban the sale of tobacco products at pharmacies, similar to a ban approved in San Francisco
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| Jul.2 |
Oakland |
Dozens laid off from Children's Hospital A slumping economy and the state's budget crunch is being blamed for the abrupt layoff of 84 employees: doctors, nurses and clinical workers
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| Jun.28 |
Novato |
Nurse charged trying to overdose mother
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| Jun.9 |
Oakland |
Kaiser, Microsoft test medical records tech
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63 Restaurant Workers Nabbed In Raid
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| Mar.29 |
San Francisco |
Striking Nurses Go Back To Work As a 10-day strike nears the end, union leaders and hospital officials are ready to get back to the bargaining tables, but neither has done ...
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| Mar.21 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area Nurses Launch 10-Day Strike| Thousands of nurses who work at hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health have gone on strike for the third time since October | | |
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| Mar.14 |
Martinez |
Nurses' strike in Martinez averted |
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| Feb.28 |
Google |
Google Releases Health Service Details CEO Eric Schmidt: Google Inc. will not use advertising to support its new Internet health service. The venture raising concerns
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| Feb.27 |
Daly City |
Hospital Allows Transgender Surgery
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| Feb.22 |
Millbrae |
Workers Strike At Convalescent Hospital Health care workers began striking over allegations the hospital's new management has been violating federal labor laws
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| Feb.21 |
Google |
Google to Store Patients' Health Records Google will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise concerns
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| Feb.1 |
SJSU |
Blood drives halted over gay donor ban The university has suspended all campus blood drives because of a long-standing government policy that bars gay men from donating blood
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| Jan.9 |
San Francisco |
Employers To Subsidize Health Care Plan Federal appeals court: The city can provide health care to the uninsured and have businesses help pay for it
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| Jan.7 |
South of Market |
Cal Pacific Med Center signs lease
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| Jan.3 |
San Francisco |
Court arguments in health insurance case
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| Jan.1 |
San Francisco |
City's health care for uninsured grows
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| Dec.16 |
San Francisco |
Burn unit expands, bucking national trend
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| Dec.15 |
San Francisco |
Bay Area Sutter Health Nurses End Strike Registered nurses ended their 48 hour walkout at 13 Bay Area hospitals, but many won't return to work until next week
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| Dec.13 |
Oakland |
Nurses Strike For 2nd Time In 2 Months 5,000 of registered nurses at 13 Bay Area hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health plan walked off the job
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| Nov.30 |
Redwood City |
Colo. doctor extradited to Calif.
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House committee chair lambasts Yahoo
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| Oct.10 |
San Francisco |
Thousands Of Nurses Strike In Bay Area| Nearly 5,000 nurses in the Bay Area and beyond are staging the two-day strike to protest what they say are unacceptable proposals | | |
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| Sep.28 |
San Francisco |
Nurses authorize N. California strike
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| Sep.7 |
San Jose |
Couple Held For Unlicensed Plastic Surgery
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| Aug.7 |
Santa Clara |
Kaiser Moves Patients To New Hospital 
Map| Hospital staff are moving about 150 bed-ridden patients roughly 1.5 miles to their new $700 million hospital | |
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| Jul.27 |
Oakland |
Record $3 million fine for Kaiser |
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| Jul.12 |
San Francisco |
Schwarzenegger Touts Health Plan |
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| Jul.2 |
Dublin |
Board suspends doctor suspected of rape |
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| Jun.13 |
Vallejo |
Hospital Disputes 'Poor' Rating |
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| Apr.24 |
Oakland |
Dr. suspended for defrauding Medi-Cal |
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| Apr.18 |
UCSF |
File server with patient data stolen |
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| Apr.15 |
Oakland |
Doctor's license revoked |
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Google Earth maps out Darfur atrocities
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| Apr.6 |
San Mateo |
Child Psychiatrist Accused Of Molestation| Doctor William Ayres was arrested and booked on 14 felony counts alleging lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old. The 75-year-old once headed the American ... | |
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| Mar.10 |
Santa Rosa |
Kaiser Error Blamed For Infant's Death |
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| Jan.22 |
Fremont |
Schwarzenegger Touts Health Care Plan
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| Jan.19 |
San Francisco |
Premiums Up 750% For School Bus Drivers |
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| Jan.1 |
Santa Clara |
1st Bay Area Baby Of 2007 Arrives |
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| Dec.13 |
San Francisco |
Kaiser Criticized Over Kidney Transplants
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| Dec.5 |
Oakland |
Dr. accused of giving drugs without exams |
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| Nov.8 |
Oakland |
Kaiser income shoots up 37% |
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| Nov.6 |
Dublin |
Doctor wanted on rape charge Dr. Tony G. Shiu accused of sexually battering 2 men and taking hundreds of photographs of patients
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| Oct.18 |
Walnut Creek |
Last Minute Deal Helps John Muir Patients |
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| Oct.5 |
San Pablo |
Pink Slips Go Out To 300 Hospital Workers |
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| Sep.12 |
San Pablo |
Hospital On The Brink Of Closure Doctors Medical Center is looking for help from the State or the County
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HP Sought Director Records in Leak Probe
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| Aug.28 |
Concord |
Hospital Workers Launch Two-Day Strike |
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| Aug.10 |
Oakland |
Kaiser Fined $2M For Transplant Program State regulators concluded the mismanagement of kidney transplant program endangered hundreds of patients
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Lawsuit: Salon Gave Deadly Pedicure
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| Jul.18 |
SF City Hall |
Supes Pass Health Care For Uninsured| The Board voted unanimously to approve legislation that creates the Health Access
Program | |
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| Jun.20 |
SF City Hall |
Proposal: Health Care For SF's Uninsured
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| Jun.3 |
Oakland |
Pharmacists, Kaiser reach tentative pact |
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| May.28 |
Oakland |
Kaiser Pharmacists to Strike |
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| May.27 |
San Francisco |
Push On For Helipad On Hospital |
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| May.16 |
San Mateo |
County Nurses Call Off Strike |
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| May.9 |
San Mateo |
San Mateo Co. Nurses To Go On Strike |
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| Mar.9 |
Oakland |
Surgeon On Bail After Operating Room Fit
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| Mar.8 |
Castro Valley |
Eden contract settled
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| Mar.7 |
Castro Valley |
Lockout In Eden Med Center Labor Fight Center CEO followed through on his plan to lock out hospital workers who ended their seven-day strike
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| Feb.23 |
Concord |
2-Day Hospital Strike Begins 400 union-represented health care workers from John Muir Medical Center walked off the job
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| Feb.10 |
Berkeley |
Alta Bates settles with service workers |
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Google censors itself for China
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| Jan.21 |
Stanford |
Hospital strike averted
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| Jan.1 |
San Jose |
First Bay Area baby of 2006 |
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Face transplant woman thanks team
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| Nov.12 |
San Francisco |
Hospital workers ratify contract
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| Nov.10 |
Santa Clara |
Kaiser Records Show Signs Of Danger |
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| Sep.30 |
Oakland |
Kaiser, unions have pact
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| Sep.22 |
San Mateo |
Healthy Quads Born |
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| Sep.19 |
Palo Alto |
Health Records Stolen From Agency
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| Sep.17 |
San Francisco |
Katrina Refugees Cross Picket Line
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| Sep.13 |
Berkeley |
Strikers Set Up Pickets At Hospitals
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| Jun.15 |
Emeryville |
Chiron Warns on Fewer Flu Vaccines
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| May.20 |
San Jose |
Fake Plastic Surgery Doctor Sentenced |
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| May.5 |
Barry Bonds |
Bonds' surgeon has history of troubles |
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| Apr.12 |
San Francisco |
Drug Stores Start Selling Syringes |
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| Mar.30 |
San Rafael |
Woman Evicted From Hospital |
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| Mar.9 |
San Rafael |
Elderly woman fights to remain in hospital Sarah Nome's story fights with Kaiser Hospital, the unpaid medical bills. The sheriff refusing to evict her
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| Mar.8 |
Oakland |
Kaiser posts 59% gain in net income |
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Regulators Lift Suspension on Chiron
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| Feb.25 |
San Jose |
Fake Plastic Surgery Doctor Pleads Guilty |
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| Feb.6 |
Alameda County |
County Heath Insurance Plan To End |
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| Jan.10 |
Oakland |
Iraqi Family Thanks Children's Hospital
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| Dec.2 |
Oakland |
Hospital Strike Turns to Lockout |
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| Nov.19 |
Oakland |
N. California nurses plan one-day strike |
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| Nov.17 |
San Jose |
Medical Center shutdown causes problems |
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| Nov.16 |
San Francisco |
Kaiser covers locked-out hotel workers
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| Sep.8 |
San Jose Downtown |
Medical Center announced closure
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| Aug.30 |
Alameda County |
Health care workers walk out in protest
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CEO Jobs Says Has Cancer Surgery
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| Jun.19 |
Golden Gate Bridge |
Health Care Workers Rally |
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Beef bone recall
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| Jan.2 |
Fremont |
Bay Area's No. 1 Baby for 2004 |
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| Dec.25 |
Santa Rosa |
Helicopter air ambulance grounded |
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Mad cow disease confirmed
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| Dec.16 |
Emeryville |
Chiron sells 375,000 additional flu vaccine |
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| Dec.2 |
Google |
Google Curb Online Drug Ads |
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| Nov.21 |
San Jose |
Fake Doctor Botched Breast Implant |
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| Jul.13 |
Berkeley |
Doctor recommended pot 7,500 times |
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Mad cow disease reported
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| May.12 |
Genentech |
Arthritis drug fails key experiment |
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| May.10 |
San Francisco |
Union agrees to concessions to save ward |
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| May.2 |
Antioch |
Kaiser to build hospital |
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Bechtel wins giant Iraq contract
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| Mar.10 |
San Francisco |
SF is healthiest city in America |
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| Feb.23 |
Brisbane |
AIDS vaccine developed by VaxGen An experimental vaccine does not protect most people, but showed promise in protecting blacks and Asians
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Firm acquitted of copyright infringement
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| Sep.25 |
Milpitas |
HMO Lifeguard to be shut down |
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| Jul.12 |
San Francisco |
Nurses strike averted |
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| May.24 |
UCSF |
UC and nurses union reach agreement |
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| May.15 |
San Jose |
Health care workers strike |
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| Apr.6 |
Napa |
6 gynecologists settle fee-fixing charges |
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| Mar.7 |
Oakland |
Kaiser Permanente names new CEO
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| Jan.1 |
San Jose |
First Bay Area baby of 2002 |
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| Dec.10 |
Palo Alto |
Unreliable tests for Lyme disease |
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| Dec.3 |
Mountain View |
MedImmune to buy Aviron |
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Human embryo clone created
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| Sep.27 |
Palo Alto |
Quintuplets delivered |
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| Jul.7 |
San Francisco |
61-year-old woman gives birth |
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| May.24 |
Redwood City |
Newborns get Internet address |
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| Apr.13 |
Oakland |
Kaiser settles discrimination lawsuit |
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| Oct.30 |
Pleasanton |
Rabid Bat Found |
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| Jul.4 |
Oakland |
5 doctors resign |
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