A new law expands pharmacists’ abilities to include prescribing birth control methods, but few are do so, research shows. Who pays consultation fees might be the reason.

An Oakland start-up creates a unique diet plan from a swab of DNA, a few drops of blood, and some vital stats.

The new twist on an old treatment adds La-Z-Boys, a sliding scale, and a group setting.

Those Northern California wildfires weren’t good for your lungs.

Child life specialists at Oakland Children’s Hospital help youngster cope with complex medical procedures and conditions.

Everyday people are trying whole-body cyrotherapy, super-cooling their bodies at spas mimicking a recovery regimen of the pros. But does it work?

In two years, 66 percent of more than 200 patients treated at the Specialty Blood Pressure Clinic have their high blood pressure under control.

Hep C patients are being cured with fewer side effects, and researchers are working on a hep C vaccine.

As scary as that sounds, these surgeries couldn’t have gone any smoother.

An old drug is a new option for labor pain.