Social networks are key to fighting breast cancer.

UC Berkeley students bring natural products into the skin-care world.

Nikki Huiras practices professional cuddling.

Are nootropics—the so-called smart drugs—really that smart?

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital expands gender center services to Oakland, spreading awareness for gender-expansive kids.

Smartphones, computers, and tablets are as essential as the stethoscope for physicians delivering everyday health care as the popularity of telemedicine increases.

A mother reflects on her daughter’s brush with lead poisoning and contemplates living with uncertainty.

As the popularity of Brazilian waxing and related grooming increases among women, doctors have become concerned.

An Oakland industrial 3D printing and design studio, FATHOM, and online community e-NABLE team up to get artificial limbs to children and people in need around the world.

Teams at Kaiser’s Garfield Innovation Center test-drive solutions with doctors, nurses, patients, and consultants whose ideas may lead to a new health-care delivery system.