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    Sunday, December 28th 2025

    Today's e-Edition

    Health

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    Trending:

    • The ‘surfer’s paradox’
    • Those we lost in 2025
    • ‘They treated us like animals’
    • Another Kaiser strike?
    • Taste-Off: Sparkling cider
    • 2026 dining trends

    Health

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    Fired Stanford researcher gets probation for altering cancer data with insults like ‘doctor too stupid’

    A tour was given to the media at the Stanford Outpatient Center on Tuesday showing their state-of-the-art medical facility located in Redwood City. The outpatient center opens its doors on February 17th. (Konstandinos Goumenidis / Daily News)
    Naheed Mangi, 70, was sentenced 12 years after her crime of conviction, which involved hacking into a Stanford database and changing patient data.
    A tour was given to the media at the Stanford Outpatient Center on Tuesday showing their state-of-the-art medical facility located in Redwood City. The outpatient center opens its doors on February 17th. (Konstandinos Goumenidis / Daily News)
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    Correction: Health insurance costs spike for businesses, workers after pandemic

    A customer enters The Booksmith on Haight Street in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2025. Co-owner Christin Evans provides four of her employees with 100% free health insurance. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)

    Why California workers, businesses are paying more for health insurance

    Latest Headlines

    • Members of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department and Santa Clara County Fire Department gather bags of toys to deliver in the children’s wing of the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in San Jose, Calif.  The two departments collected hundreds of toys from the community to be distributed at the hospital and other sites throughout the county.  (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)

      Photos: Santa Clara County’s Sheriff and Fire Department delivered toys to young patients for Christmas

    • Stacks of tortilla packages at a supermarket in Fresno on April 9, 2024. (Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local)

      A new California law requires tortillas to include an extra ingredient. Here’s why

    • FILE – An exam room at a medical clinic in Detroit on July 29, 2015. (Charles V. Tines/Detroit News via AP, File)

      You finally got a doctor’s appointment. Here’s how to get the most out of it

    Coronavirus

    U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr is interviewed on FOX News outside of the White House West Wing on Sept. 9, 2025, in Washington, D.C.. (Win McNamee/Getty Images North America/TNS)

    FDA investigating possible adult deaths from COVID vaccines

    Kennedy has repeatedly called the safety and efficacy of the shots into question.
    • Conflicting advice on COVID shots likely to ding already low vaccine rates, experts warn

    • Can a weight loss and diabetes drug treat long COVID?

    • Common viral infections like flu and shingles can raise your risk of heart attack and stroke, analysis finds

    Vaccines

    Early estimates cited by the World Health Organization suggest that seasonal influenza vaccines continue to protect against severe illness and hospitalization in both children and adults. (Dreamstime/TNS/Dreamstime/TNS)

    ‘Super flu’ variant is circulating and raising concern. Here’s what to know about it

    Detections of this subclade have risen rapidly since August 2025.
    • Under Kennedy, America’s health department is in the business of promoting Kennedy

    • South Carolina measles quarantine soars beyond 300 people

    • How will child vaccine rollback impact Bay Area families?

    Medicine

    Nancy Shine at her home in Los Altos, Calif., on Nov. 21, 2025. Shine is a scientist who donated blood plasma that is used to create the treatment for infant botulism. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

    How a rare drug made from California scientists’ blood saves babies from botulism

    The botulism outbreak tied to ByHeart formula has sickened at least 39 babies across in 18 states since August — and showed the value of the treatment made from blood plasma donated by a small group of scientists and other...
    • US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth

    • Stanford researchers link lupus to common virus in ‘breakthrough’ study

    • James Watson dies at 97; co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix shape helped revolutionize scientific research

    Health Care

    A tour was given to the media at the Stanford Outpatient Center on Tuesday showing their state-of-the-art medical facility located in Redwood City. The outpatient center opens its doors on February 17th. (Konstandinos Goumenidis / Daily News)

    Fired Stanford researcher gets probation for altering cancer data with insults like ‘doctor too stupid’

    Naheed Mangi, 70, was sentenced 12 years after her crime of conviction, which involved hacking...
    • Why California workers, businesses are paying more for health insurance

    • You finally got a doctor’s appointment. Here’s how to get the most out of it

    • Kaiser labor talks stall, raising fears of another strike

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