San Francisco mulls safe-injection room
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City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation's first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.
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Anxiety over the nation&#39;s flu vaccination shortage is ratcheting up for high-risk patients as lines are growing up to seven hours long at some Bay Area vaccination centers.
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By Therese Poletti and Nicole C. Wo, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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A California lab on Wednesday said it has not broken federal rules in selling pure, high-potency toxin to an Oakland Park clinic that used it for wrinkle shots that witnesses said poisoned four people with botulism.
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The American Medical Association&#39;s policy-making board could make a decision today about supporting the safe importation of prescription drugs.
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Customers are getting Botox shots in settings that are   more salon than  doctorâs office.
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LONG BEACH The city&#39;s health department will have 3,350 doses of flu vaccine available, but only for a select group of high-risk patients who must make appointments beginning today, the department announced Tuesday.
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San Francisco officials are again  grappling with an issue as old as the Golden Gate Bridge: how  to stop people from killing themselves by jumping off the  city's most famous landmark.
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Dec. 6 (BCN) - The Sonoma County Department of Health Services has scheduled five flu shot clinics for Saturday Dec. 11. The clinics are only for Sonoma County residents most in danger of contracting the flu.
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The lobby of the Palace Hotel was a hub of activity after lunch yesterday. The picture to the right hardly does it justice. A constant stream of friends, a wide variety of ages and backgrounds, flowed through.  It was unlike anything I had seen before, likely because this conference was held in downtown SF, and not San Diego or Phoenix, and a facet of what we'll have when the Newsroom of the Future is up and running. Every city will have one, but San Francisco will probably be first.  Here's a video I took last week at CUNY that gives another perspective. Lots of tables, video screens, a stage, radio and TV equipment. What you can't see is that the room was saturated with wifi, and while it didn't have a huge presence on the Internet, it could have.
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The Stanislaus County Health Services Agency, having received a limited supply of flu vaccine, has scheduled flu shot clinics for adults in high-risk categories.
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A panel of experts will meet on Tuesday to consider whether the Food and Drug Administration should approve Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine, which could become the first such product cleared for the U.S. market.
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The Harris County Hospital District is hoping it can snag a few thousand of the 24 million doses of flu vaccine that haven&#39;t been shipped by vaccine maker Aventis Pasteur.
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Thousands of food service workers in eateries across Los Angeles might be vaccinated for hepatitis A because of a series of outbreaks of the disease.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. A hospital in Redwood City is warning more than two thousand people that they may have been exposed to hepatitis while they were in the hospital for tests.
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As New York City firefighters struggled to find survivors in the haze and rubble of the World Trade Center collapse, the fire department's chief doctor was thinking about how to keep them safe from toxins in the air.
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LONDON - US health officials met with British regulators yesterday to discuss the suspension of flu vaccine production and planned to inspect the Liverpool factory to see whether any impounded vaccine could be salvaged.