by Karin Fleming | May 17, 2022
Palo Alto resident Laura Clausen is a melanoma survivor at age 63. She credits enrolling in a clinical trial at Sutter’s CPMC for giving her hope and the trial drug needed to heal her cancer. In 2012, Clausen discovered a grape-sized lump on her neck. A biopsy and CT...
by Ashley Boarman | Apr 19, 2022
Diane Weissmuller was never shy about telling people her age. “That’s what getting a transplant does to you: Makes you happy to tell people your age,” chuckled Weissmuller, who received a lifesaving liver transplant at California Pacific Medical Center in 1992. She...
by Ashley Boarman | Apr 4, 2022
When it comes to some organ transplants, getting one from someone who’s a living person has its benefits. That’s why a Northern California transplant center is encouraging residents to register to become an organ donor this National Donate Life Month. “Living organ...
by Ashley Boarman | Mar 1, 2022
B-R-A-I-N P-O-W-E-R These five-letter words are solid Wordle plays. If you have no idea what we’re talking about, let us get you up to speed. Wordle is not a sound you make, rather it is a web-based word game that’s been described as fun, simple and, like a crossword,...
by Karin Fleming | Feb 10, 2022
A Santa Rosa woman is the first in San Francisco to receive this new treatment for brain cancer A diagnosis of cancer is shocking for most people. But a diagnosis of brain cancer may carry additional fear when one considers these facts: no other cancer is as...
