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Jul 1, 2009 | 20 comments

California will step up its campaign against bad diets, bulging waistlines and clogged arteries when three new laws dealing with restaurant and school food take effect July 1.

Jun 29, 2009

The Food and Drug Administration says a sample of raw cookie dough collected at a Nestle USA manufacturing plant last week has tested positive for E. coli.

Jun 28, 2009 | 1 comment

The first case of H1N1 is confirmed in Napa County just as the area gears up for summer tourists.

Jun 22, 2009 | 1 comment

Government hopes partnership will revive tourism.

Jun 17, 2009

The World Health Organization has raised the pandemic threat level to six, but the C.D.C. says the declaration will have little effect in the U.S.

Jun 16, 2009 | 14 comments

Consumers should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel and related products because they can permanently damage the sense of smell, federal health regulators said Tuesday.

Jun 10, 2009

Another child burned at a day care center in Mexico is being treated at Shriners Hospital in Sacramento, the fourth child brought here for care.

May 29, 2009 | 22 comments

You better put down that glass of bleach and stop eating poison oak, because the California Poison Control System is going away.

May 14, 2009 | 6 comments

Influenza experts worry that the spring outbreak of swine flu in North America could be followed by a second wave of more severe infections and illnesses next fall and winter.

May 7, 2009

The US may add swine flu shots to seasonal inoculation as health officials fear the new H1N1 virus could wreak havoc during regular flu season.

Jun 3, 2009 | 7 comments

Swine flu cases are erupting worldwide. The WHO raised the alert level to a phase 5, one level short of declaring a full pandemic.

May 7, 2009 | 13 comments

U.S. officials said Monday that it's too early to say the swine-flu threat is receding, even though there are some signs the outbreak may not be as serious as originally feared.

May 7, 2009 | 2 comments

Tips to avoid swine flu, and how to know whether your illness should send you to the hospital.

May 7, 2009 | 3 comments

Mystery illness fails to deliver on havoc-wreaking potential.

May 7, 2009

Now that the swine flu virus has passed from a farmworker to pigs, could it jump back to people? The question is important, because crossing species again could make it more deadly.

May 7, 2009 | 10 comments

Texas state health officials confirmed the first death of a U.S. resident from the virus.

May 7, 2009 | 8 comments

New swine flu cases have popped up in the Bay Area Thursday.

Apr 17, 2009 | 3 comments

Kaiser Permanente is throwing tons of technology at a longtime problem: how can we make healthcare easier, and more convenient?

Apr 8, 2009

The pepper recall at a Union City company is now linked to egg rolls. The state Department of Public Health is advising consumers not to eat chicken or vegetable egg rolls from ...

Mar 31, 2009 | 17 comments

Consumers should stop eating all foods containing pistachios while they figure out the source of a possible salmonella contamination, Federal food safety officials warned last night.

Mar 17, 2009 | 2 comments

Contra Costa County supervisors are considering cutting medical services to more than 5,000 undocumented workers.

Mar 13, 2009 | 3 comments

Half of new cases of peanut-linked salmonella infections are showing up in people who ate recalled Austin or Keebler crackers, raising worries that not everyone got the message.

Feb 25, 2009

The nationwide recall of peanut products is hitting Bay Area food banks. Agencies are throwing away bins filled with peanut-related products, and products processed on the same equipment as peanuts. This...

Feb 24, 2009 | 1 comment

Detecting salmonella illnesses linked to tainted peanuts might have gone faster, except that only two-thirds of states require labs to submit samples for DNA tests that signal national outbreaks.