Autumn Alert: Arm Up for Flu Season

Autumn Alert: Arm Up for Flu Season

As you slip into your favorite cozy sweater, pumpkin spice latte in hand, don’t forget to add another essential autumn activity to your checklist: Flu vaccination. This winter, we’ll likely see flu, COVID-19 and RSV circulating together, says Sutter Health’s...
Firearm Safety Pilot Gives Med Student Window into Research

Firearm Safety Pilot Gives Med Student Window into Research

Summer is the perfect time for exploring. Sorting through seashells on the sand. Hitting the open road with the windows down. Listening to an artist you’ve just discovered at an outdoor music festival. But for Amina Latif, a second-year medical student from Charles R....
Knowledge Seeker, Mentor Shares “Teachable Moments”

Knowledge Seeker, Mentor Shares “Teachable Moments”

By Karin Fleming, Vitals contributor From cold and flu to family planning and transgender medicine, family medicine physicians care for patients and families with these health concerns and more. While the range of illnesses and health-related questions commonly...
Quick Action Saves Child’s Vision

Quick Action Saves Child’s Vision

By Nicole Young, Vitals contributor   When Ronin Zigler struggled to keep up with his kindergarten classwork, his parents took him to several doctors to have his vision examined. They learned their son was seeing double, but no one could explain why or provide a...
Sutter Takes the Podium with Award-Winning PT & Rehab

Sutter Takes the Podium with Award-Winning PT & Rehab

Sports fans are still basking in thrilling memories of the 2024 Paris Olympics, where athletes showcased breathtaking routines honed by years of relentless practice. Although they may not reach Olympic heights, Sutter patients undergoing physical and rehabilitation...
Oakland Woman Turning 90 Gets Heart Repaired in Bay First

Oakland Woman Turning 90 Gets Heart Repaired in Bay First

Alylean Smith of Oakland is all smiles resting in her hospital bed after having her tricuspid heart valve repaired by the new TriClip™ Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair system, shown at right. By Catlin Valles, Vitals contributor Alylean Smith of Oakland will turn 90...