Pop Quiz: Can You Answer These 5 Questions on Clinical Trials?
The world’s first clinical trial was “born” in the mid-1700s, when Scottish physician-researcher Dr. James Lind encouraged a group of sailors to join an experiment in which they ate oranges and lemons. Turns out the vitamin C-rich fruit helped prevent the onset...
Yee Family Builds on Asian Heritage, Medical Legacy of Ancestors
Dr. David Yee, right, and his family visit the Chew Kee Store in the Gold Rush town of Fiddletown, east of Sacramento, where their pioneer ancestor Yee Fung Cheung was an herbal doctor. By Kathy Engle and Gary Zavoral, Vitals contributors The memory of Dr. David Yee’s...
Suspicious Scan Spurs Woman’s Lung Biopsy Using Latest Tech
Jennifer Morrice (left) praises her Sutter care team, including Sutter's Dr. Heba Ismail (right), for bringing on the latest tech for diagnosing and treating lung cancer. Jennifer Morrice’s stage 3 lung cancer diagnosis came as a total shock. The 35-year-old had never...
Editor’s Picks
Healthcare Leader Shares Insights on Industry’s Pressing Issues
by Kami Lloyd, Vitals contributor The healthcare industry continues to experience unprecedented transformation, driven by a number of factors including technological advancements, the need for greater access, evolving patient expectations and nationwide workforce...
Hospital Offers Hope When Other Depression Therapies Fail
James Weaver and wife Maria enjoy some happier times at Sutter Center for Psychiatry after his depression and PTSD were treated with transcranial magnetic stimulation. By Marycon Young and Gary Zavoral, Vitals contributors James Weaver had depression and anxiety...
Leading System Sees Opportunity in Rapidly Evolving Industry
Sutter Health today released its 2023 online Annual Report along with its first-ever leadership annual letter, in which Sutter Health Board Chair Ken McNeely and President & CEO Warner Thomas give their perspective about the state of healthcare today and where...
4 Nurses Honored for Kindness, Contributions to Field
By Stephanie Breitbart and Liz Madison, Vitals contributors Picture some of life’s most vulnerable moments. A baby, only seconds old, drawing in their first breaths and bellowing out tiny cries. The grimaces and grunts of someone who, despite a traumatic fall,...
Dive Deeper
From Classroom to Clinic: Paving the Way for Future Nurses
By Nicole Young, Vitals contributor During her two days a week at Sansum Clinic’s Pulmonary & Critical Medicine Department, Vanessa Savelich cleans exam rooms and stocks them with supplies. She greets patients, takes their blood pressure and documents...
Educational Collab Fast-Tracks Nurses to Bedside Care
SF State BSNA student Nate Challis receives immersive nurse training by Rosana Montemayor, a 20-year career nurse and new clinical instructor at Sutter's CPMC in San Francisco. Montemayor received her nursing degree from SF State. By Jennifer Modenessi, Vitals...
‘Miracle’ Baby Home After 183 Days in the NICU
Paris Sweeney Austin is grateful for simple pleasures like taking her baby Seiori outside for a walk to feel the breeze and the warmth of the sun. It’s something the 29-year-old doesn’t take for granted after enduring six months during which her tiny newborn fought...
Younger Colon Cancer Diagnoses Prompt Clinicians to Act
By Nicole Young, Vitals contributor In early 2021, frequent upset stomach and troublesome trips to the bathroom prompted Zack Kramer to seek medical attention. “Many things were happening at the same time, COVID, a stressful job, but it was becoming a bigger deal,”...
Closer Look
NICU Miracle: Baby Seiori Heads Home
Hepatologist’s Medical Mission to Ethiopia
Colonoscopy vs. At-Home Test?
Chief Resident Committed to Her Latinx Community
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