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2 major San Francisco hospitals reported that 233 staff members tested positive for COVID-19
Hospital officials said the vast majority of those staff members were vaccinated and most were case…
Michelle Mark
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What it's like to be a student at UC Berkeley right now, according to a senior who had to get a permission slip from UC police to return to campus and gets tested for COVID-19 every 3 weeks
Originally from Boulder, Colorado, Justin Lee moved to the Bay Area four years ago to attend the Un…
Laura Casado
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Silicon Valley's favorite sleep tracker is being used to help detect COVID-19 symptoms early and tackle big questions about the coronavirus' aftermath
Researchers are working with Oura to see if its smart rings can detect COVID-19 symptoms early. So …
Lisa Eadicicco
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A paralyzed woman couldn't speak for more than 20 years. With AI, now she can — just by thinking.
The neurotech, developed by researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley, reads the stroke survi…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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San Francisco International Airport has hired a 14-year-old cat, Duke Ellington Morris, onto its team of therapy animals
Fourteen-year-old Duke Ellington Morris was rescued as a 1-year-old and has worked as a therapy ani…
Clay Walker
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90% of people experiencing homelessness in California are from the state, rather than outsiders moving there for services
A major new study dispelled misconceptions that people move to California because of the state's sa…
Eliza Relman
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The problem with only talking about 'unconscious' bias
Racial bias has been dismissed as 'unconscious.' But whether bias is conscious or unconscious, the …
Brianna Holt
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A 1 year-old's sisters died due to a genetic condition that she has too. A world-first treatment she received before birth is helping her live normally.
Ayla received treatment for Pompe Disease while her mom was pregnant. Now she's eating, breathing, …
Hilary Brueck
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This is your brain on DMT the ingredient in ayahuasca that can trigger near-death experiences
In a study, scientists imaged the brains of 20 people who were injected with a high dose of DMT, a …
Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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A man who tested negative for monkeypox twice got such a bad infection doctors feared he might go blind
Kevin Kwong, 33, had six online appointments, one call to a nurse hotline, an urgent treatment visi…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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Inside the Trust Women abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas, which saw a spike in out-of-state patients after Roe was overturned
Out-of-state abortions spiked at Wichita, Kansas' Trust Women clinic after Roe was overturned. Abor…
Maiya Focht
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A breast cancer survivor says she is scrambling to get a life-changing surgery before insurance makes it inaccessible — and she's not alone
By the end of 2024, one type of breast reconstruction may be inaccessible to many breast cancer pat…
Andrea Michelson
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A man who popped a champagne cork into his eye says it felt like being poked 'times a thousand'
Jeremy West said he saw a yellow, orange color after the cork shot into his eye, and couldn't see h…
Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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A California town can test all of its residents for COVID-19 thanks in part to a venture capitalist, a biotech entrepreneur, and $100,000 from Zynga founder Mark Pincus
It's another example of how the wealthy are faring much differently than the rest of the world duri…
Katie Canales
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Facebook says it's one step closer to its vision of letting people type with their brains
For the first time, researchers at UCSF were able to take the brain activity from the study's parti…
Nick Bastone
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Biden reveals the 13 members of his COVID-19 advisory board, cochaired by a former surgeon general, a former FDA commissioner, and a Yale professor
Biden's COVID-19 panel is cochaired by former surgeon general Vivek Murthy, Marcella Nunez-Smith of…
Kate Duffy
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Medical experts think the 49ers' Super Bowl loss may have saved lives by ensuring Bay Area fans didn't celebrate as the coronavirus spread
If the 49ers had won the Super Bowl, Bay Area fans would have celebrated in the streets and attende…
Scott Davis
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A coronavirus patient and Diamond Princess cruise ship passenger being treated in a San Francisco hospital says he feels perfectly fine
Wright said he hasn't experienced the typical symptoms of the virus, such as fever, coughing, or sh…
Katie Canales
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Scientists ID drugs that may block coronavirus from jumping to uninfected cells
The scientists, including those from EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and the …
PTI
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's charity wants to 'quadruple' the Bay Area's COVID-19 testing capacity in under a week by buying diagnostic machines
The task force's formation comes as the US remains severely limited in its capacity to test individ…