Health

With many Bay Area schools set to start in the next couple of weeks, sleep experts are warning now is the time get kids back on schedule.

August is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and one expert at Stanford discusses how nuclear medicine diagnostic scans are helping treat children with cancer.

“I suffer from anxiety, like real deep anxiety,” rapper and entrepreneur Mistah F.A.B. is opening up publicly, for the first time, about his struggles with mental health.

Nuclear medicine is gaining popularity as an effective way to treat some cancers, with some patients saying it has given them a better quality of life.

Stanford University researchers are leading the way toward a treatment for Alzheimer’s and are encouraging people from underrepresented groups to participate in a memory disorder study.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and a recent CDC report shows our nation’s youth are in a crisis. Experts advise parents there are signs to watch for, including eating and sleeping habits.

April is National Volunteer Month, and the American Red Cross is offering incentives to people willing to volunteer to give some blood.

After three years of worrying about respiratory viruses such as COVID and RSV, an old bug is making a new surge.

Research from the National Institute on Aging shows the risk for developing Alzheimer’s is higher in Black Americans when compared with white counterparts.

More young people are dying of heart attacks now than before the pandemic, according to an October 2022 study, but experts say the correlation is with COVID infections and not the initial vaccine.

The holiday season is underway, and doctors are warning that a triple threat of viruses could put a damper on celebrations.

A nonprofit is trying to make the fight against cancer a little bit easier for women.

Some of the nation’s top doctors are now urging President Joe Biden to declare a national emergency over RSV.