When Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital began offering new mothers who gave birth there a follow-up visit with a nurse at home, Ebony Durant worried that the idea would be a hard sell for ...

The serval did not want to go into her crate. The spotted cat's name was Naomi, she had just been weighed, and now it was time to do as she was told. "C'mon — in your crate," urged Thomas Barber, a ...

Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Nov. 18–24, serves as a global call to action to address antimicrobial resistance (AMR) — a growing public health concern that occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and ...

Bracken Babula starts patient visits these days by closing the exam room door, and asking if they mind him recording their conversation. He hits a button on his mobile phone, checks that it is ...

Years ago, after graduating from culinary school, I lived for a while with relatives in Switzerland, often cooking them dinner and asking my aunt, who spoke limited English, how it tasted. Every night ...

Tuolumne County is touting a free, one-stop, drive-through recycling collection event for all county residents, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday at Mother Lode Fairgrounds, 202 Southgate Drive. The ...

People who regularly speak multiple languages age more slowly on average, a study using data from more than 86,000 adults in 27 European countries found. Published in the journal Nature Aging, an ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a child. Or for one 10-year-old in Northern California, a colony of bees. When the city of Santa Rosa received an anonymous complaint this year about some problem ...

I have been assured there are other players on the Golden State Warriors and that I don’t always have to write about Jonathan Kuminga. But I kind of do.

Teenagers are generally obsessed with their smartphones. So much so that Kristin Hatling’s family recently encountered a gaggle of them who had brought their screens into a resort’s hot tub. “My ...

Rabbi Ethan Witkovsky and Reverend Adam Hearlson seem like they've been friends forever. Witkovsky, 41, is the senior rabbi at Temple Beth Hillel-Beth El (TBH-BE), a Conservative movement synagogue in ...

Each November, we observe National Diabetes Month and engage in discussions surrounding prevention, management and the impact of this increasingly common autoimmune disease. Diabetes, both type 1 and ...