Parents, Be Kind to Yourselves During COVID School Year

Parents, Be Kind to Yourselves During COVID School Year

Many parents and guardians of school-age children are buckling up for back to school while simultaneously trying to balance their own work-from-home lives. In an interview with CBSN, Lisa Giovannetti, an integrative psychotherapist with Sutter’s Institute for Health...
How to Keep Your Kids Safe in Water

How to Keep Your Kids Safe in Water

As parents scramble to find ways to keep their kids active during the pandemic, water safety is even more important When the weather’s hot, it’s natural for kids to be drawn to water — a pool, lake, river or ocean. Water is sparkly and refreshing, a place to...

Care Coming into View

by Sutter Health Arleen Beviacqua-Enriquez noticed two things about her body in the fall of 2019. First, an irregular mole, which the 65-year-old had already developed a trained eye to spot. Its irregular edges told a familiar tale. Moles are a hereditary condition...
How a Video Visit Appointment Led to Melanoma Diagnosis

How a Video Visit Appointment Led to Melanoma Diagnosis

Arleen Beviacqua-Enriquez noticed two things about her body in the fall of 2019. First, an irregular mole, which the 65-year-old had already developed a trained eye to spot. Its irregular edges told a familiar tale. Moles are a hereditary condition passed down for...
Wildfire Smoke and COVID-19: What to Know and How to Prepare

Wildfire Smoke and COVID-19: What to Know and How to Prepare

SAN FRANCISCO – For people who experienced breathing and respiratory problems brought on by previous years’ wildfire smoke, a San Francisco health expert cautions that these individuals should be extra vigilant with their health while COVID-19 is among us. In an...
Doctor Warns Delaying Care Is Not Without Risk

Doctor Warns Delaying Care Is Not Without Risk

OAKLAND, Calif. –A Bay Area physician is warning people that delaying critical or preventive care because of fears of COVID-19 could have detrimental effects on their health. Junaid Khan, MD In an interview with KPIX 5’s CBSN, Junaid Khan, M.D., a cardiothoracic...