by Gary Zavoral | Sep 27, 2021
Many Northern Californians have focused on the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and the delta variant-related surge for the past several months, but infectious disease physicians are warning area residents: “Don’t take the flu lightly.” Jeffrey Silvers, M.D., Sutter’s...
by Gary Zavoral | Sep 9, 2021
Registered Nurse Carina Klescewski cares for a COVID-19 patient inside the Sutter Roseville Medical Center ICU during the initial surge in December 2020. Critical-care physicians have learned a lot about how to care for very sick COVID-19 patients in ICUs over...
by Gary Zavoral | Jul 12, 2021
The number of video visits with a physician exploded during the pandemic, and they have become a suitable, convenient complement to many in-person doctor appointments, although there are limitations. For example, the doctor still can’t perform cardiac stress tests,...
by Gary Zavoral | Jul 1, 2021
As the Delta variant of COVID-19 spreads rapidly around the world and even regionally, a Northern California pulmonologist said today — as folks head into Fourth of July activities and travel plans — to keep those masks close even if you’re vaccinated....
by Gary Zavoral | Jun 23, 2021
Research by one of the nation’s largest healthcare networks found that 100,000 women in Northern California haven’t had a mammogram in more than two years, and breast imaging specialists are concerned this will lead to diagnoses of more developed cancers that will be...
