Health, Doctors and Common Sense

The concept is brilliant in its simplicity: When you and your elderly relatives are piecing together names and dates for your family tree, put together your family's health history, as well. After all, older relatives may well recall the ailments that beset their parents and grandparents, allowing you access to heirloom knowledge about your family's health through the generations.

Tags: Ailments, Creating A Family Tree, Elderly Relatives, Family Health, Family History, Generations, Health History, Knowledge, Parents And Grandparents, Simplicity, Tree Experts

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State officials are pressuring drug giant Bristol-Myers Squibb to do something about the skyrocketing cost of AIDS medication.

Tags: Aids, Aids Drug, Aids Medication, Bristol Myers, Bristol Myers Squibb, Drug Giant, Medication, State Officials

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August is National Immunization Awareness Month and First 5 Yolo is asking parents to vaccinate their children before sending them to preschool and kindergarten.

Tags: Kindergarten, National Immunization Awareness Month, Parents

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The state Department of Insurance has begun alerting customers by e-mail whenever health insurance providers submit planned rate hikes to the agency.

Tags: Department Of Insurance, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Providers, Health Insurers, Health Plans, Insurance, Mail Notice, Rate Hikes, Send E Mail, Send Mail, State Department Of Insurance, State Insurance

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Ways that stem cells might one day be used to treat the loss of vision or hearing will be the subject of a free public lecture Wednesday evening at UC Davis Medical Center.

Tags: Davis Medical Center, Free Public Lecture, Loss Of Vision, Stem Cell, Stem Cells, Uc Davis Medical, Uc Davis Medical Center, Uc Davis Scientists, Wednesday Evening

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While most provisions of the federal health care overhaul will take years to roll out, tax credits for small businesses providing health insurance to their workers take effect this year. But insurance agents and health care advocates say many business owners remain unaware of the benefit.

Tags: Benefit, Business Owners, Federal Health Care, Health Care Advocates, Health Insurance, Insurance, Insurance Agents, Insurance Health, Insurance Tax, Provisions, Small Businesses, Tax Credit, Tax Credits

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Anthem Blue Cross, the state's largest health insurer, appointed a new president Monday, a week after its former president abruptly left the company.

Tags: Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross, Former President, Health Insurer, Health New, New President, Rival

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Public health officials are warning people to be especially wary of ticks this summer after a child's infection was traced to ticks in a brushy area of Folsom.

Tags: County Health Officials, Public Health Officials, Sacramento County, Tick Bites, Ticks

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Anthem Blue Cross, the state's largest health insurer, appointed a new president today, a week after its former president abruptly left the company.

Tags: Anthem Blue Cross, Former President, Health Insurer, New President

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Blending Western medicine and the cultures of America's original inhabitants will be among the topics covered at a national conference on American Indian behavioral health being held in Sacramento this week.

Tags: Behavioral Health, Cultures, Health Conference, Inhabitants, Medicine, National Health, Native American Health, Western Medicine

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