Health

Starting Friday, workers and visitors at health care facilities in parts of the Bay Area will be required to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID and other infectious diseases.

Starting Friday, workers and visitors at health care facilities in parts of the Bay Area will be required to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID and other infectious diseases.

The baby powder was first recalled in September.

Since the first reported case of HIV in the U.S. 43 years ago, ending HIV epidemic is possible with new medicine that may ensure long, healthy lives and prevention.

Since the first reported case of HIV in the U.S. 43 years ago, ending HIV epidemic is possible with new medicine that may ensure long, healthy lives and prevention

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu.

Fresh, slivered onions on the restaurant chain’s Quarter Pounders “are the likely source” of the outbreak, the agency said Wednesday.

As voters look to make pivotal decisions this Election Day, a new survey is revealing more Americans are feeling anxiety. Life coach Dr. Shirley Davis discusses how to deal with the fallout from the election.

Hurricane Helene hit North Carolina more than a month ago, but the impacts are still being felt in the Bay Area right now in the form of an IV fluid shortage. 

While 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime, only one in 204 will be diagnosed by age 30. Bay FC defender Jen Beattie talks about her diagnosis at 29 and the support she received.

The outbreak, likely linked to slivered onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, joins a list of other E. coli incidents from fresh produce, especially precut, pre-washed fruits and vegetables.

Updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting JN.1-lineage omicron variants of the coronavirus are now available in the U.S. for the fall and winter seasons.

McDonald’s E. coli outbreak surprised many people and has impacted many across the county. Now, Taylor Farms in Salinas is being investigated as the potential source of the deadly outbreak. NBC Bay Area’s Jessica Aguirre spoke with Dr. Paul Bollyky, an immunologist and infectious disease specialist at Stanford Medical Center, to understand what the outbreak means.

An international group of health experts concluded that existing regulations globally are insufficient to protect the public from the potential harms of widely accessible gambling.

Even as cases of H5N1 virus among animals and people are rising in the U.S., there’s no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

New standards from the Environmental Protection Agency are aimed at protecting children from exposure to lead paint.

A breakthrough technology is helping millions of Americans with type 2 diabetes to make it easier than ever to receive life-saving insulin — without injections. An expert tell us about the wearable omnipod, cleared by the FDA.

The McDonald’s E. Coli outbreak has been linked to food served in 10 states, including several in the West and Midwest.

Four cases in Washington farmworkers are the latest in a drumbeat of human infections across the U.S. as the virus continues to spread among farm animals.

An E. coli outbreak has been linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders in multiple states.