by Karin Fleming | Apr 8, 2020
Not-for-profit Sutter Health Launches Clinical Trials with Gilead Sciences Sutter Health, together with health systems across Northern California has teamed up with Foster City-based Gilead Sciences on clinical trials for a promising treatment for COVID-19. The...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Apr 7, 2020
Imagine if you were ordered to shelter in place and your only option was a homeless shelter. How would you get care for your existing health conditions? For low-income or homeless people who live in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, the coronavirus outbreak is...
by Sutter Health | Apr 6, 2020
by The Mercury News SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Receiving sound medical advice is more important now than it’s ever been. Albert Chan, M.D., chief of digital patient experience at Sutter Health, shares how you can get advice and take action, all from your living room. View...
by Ashley Boarman | Apr 6, 2020
My fellow millennials: Like many of you, I like a good Sunday brunch and avocado toast, I can’t live without Netflix and Amazon Prime, and I scroll through Yelp and Eater much too often in search of that perfect new restaurant. Like many of you, I am a millennial. And...
by Gary Zavoral | Apr 3, 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – If your child is in diapers or is being potty-trained, don’t poo-poo this advice. During this coronavirus pandemic, it may just save your life or that of a loved one. Paul Walsh, M.D., medical director of the Pediatric Emergency Department at...
by Liz Madison | Apr 3, 2020
Nothing beats the comfort of home. And while many of us are staying as safe as possible under our own roofs to help curb the spread of COVID-19, there are still those essential workers who head out the door to their jobs each day—including front line health care...
by Emma Dugas | Apr 2, 2020
Pregnancy can often be filled with a lot of questions. Parents welcoming babies into the world right now face an unusual new set of fears. Health experts are reassuring expectant mothers and answering key concerns about pregnancy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Above...
by Mike Stahl | Apr 1, 2020
Chalk it up to neighborly love in the time of coronavirus. This week, eight Sonoma residents showed their gratitude for frontline workers at Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital, part of Sutter Health’s integrated not-for-profit network of care, by creating colorful...
by Liz Madison | Apr 1, 2020
How can parents/guardians provide reassurance to children when a lot remains unknown? COVID-19 has changed our world in a short amount of time—and perhaps the course of history—but how can parents talk to kids about it now? Krystle Balduzzi, M.D., pediatrician at...
by Sutter Health | Mar 30, 2020
by The San Francisco Chronicle Telemedicine is “having a moment,” as Dr. Rahul Parikh at Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center put it. As the COVID-19 outbreak escalates around the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care...
