Seeking Cancer’s Earliest Signals
(shown above, Pathfinder 2 investigator Dr. Charles McDonnell outside Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento) By Karin Fleming & Nicole Young, Vitals Contributors An FDA advisory panel endorsed GRAIL’s Galleri® multi-cancer early detection blood test, after reviewing...
6 Insights We’re Learning from Sleep Research That Could Change How You Age
Sleep isn't just a time for rest. Growing evidence suggests it may be one of the most powerful factors influencing how well we age, affecting everything from brain health and memory to hospital recovery and long-term independence. For more than two decades, Dr. Katie...
Two Physicians, One Goal: Personalized Concussion Care
Led by two women physicians and former athletes, Sutter Concussion Services helps patients safely return to school, work, sports and everyday life. A concussion may be classified as a mild traumatic brain injury, but for many patients, its effects are anything but...
Editor’s Picks
A New Middle Ground in Prostate Cancer Treatment
By Dr. Leila Haghighat, Vitals contributor Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in American men. Yet for decades, men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer have faced a difficult choice. They could monitor the cancer closely or treat the...
Women of Sutter Health: Shaping the Future of Medicine
The face of medicine is changing. Women now make up nearly 40% of practicing physicians in the United States, up from 26% in 2004 and comprise a majority of U.S. medical school students. At Sutter Health, women are helping shape the future of healthcare through...
What Comes Before Stomach Cancer? Researchers Are Finding Out
Call it a "gut feeling." For some stomach cancers, the first signs may appear years before a diagnosis. At Sutter Health Research Institute, Dr. Su-Ying Liang is helping lead that work. Through Gastroshare, she and researchers at Stanford University are using...
Sutter Health and Presidio Trust Launch Partnership
Founding partnership creates new model for sustaining public spaces and advancing community health through nature Media can access downloadable photos, fact sheets and additional resources here. SAN FRANCISCO (Sept. 15, 2026) — As communities look for new ways to...
Dive Deeper
New Chapter of Care Opens in Pleasanton
By Joy Jernigan, Vitals contributor Sutter Health leaders, colleagues, and elected officials gathered Sept. 17 to celebrate the opening of the new Pleasanton Care Complex, an important milestone in Sutter Health’s commitment to expand access to care in the...
Sutter’s CPMC Reaches Procedure Milestone as Face of Lung Cancer Changes
Photo: Top row, from left: Dr. Morgan Gilani, Terri Tomei and Dr. Jey K. Chung. Bottom row: Dr. Heba Ismail. Sutter’s CPMC in San Francisco, part of Sutter Health, has performed its 500th robotic bronchoscopy since launching the technology in 2023, as doctors see a...
Sutter’s CPMC Earns Highest Cardiac Certification
Sutter's CPMC Kanbar Cardiac Care Center in San Francisco has earned its first Comprehensive Cardiac Center Certification from The Joint Commission and the American Heart Association. CPMC is now among only four hospitals in Northern California and 29 hospitals...
The Daughter at the End of a Long Journey
By Jenn Lonzer, Vitals contributor Nisha Patel almost brushed it off. Patel and her husband had already traveled a long road to parenthood. After struggling to conceive and undergoing multiple rounds of IVF, their first successful embryo transfer led to the birth...
Closer Look
Finding Hope After Loss
S.F. Priests Unite in Kidney Donation
Training Hits the Road with New Mobile Sim Lab
Baby Devi’s Brave Beginning
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