by Sutter Health | Mar 15, 2022
By Monique Binkley Smith and Clayton Warren, Vitals contributors Imagine being stuck aboard a cruise ship with a deadly new virus spreading among passengers and crew. It sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but for Michael and Ann Cannarozzo of Rochester, N.Y., it...
by Sutter Health | Jan 19, 2022
By Stephanie Breitbart and Liz Madison, Vitals contributors Eighteen years ago, Kim Watson took her first steps inside a hospital as a registered nurse. There were many unknowns in that moment. Perhaps one consideration that didn’t cross Watson’s mind was how she and...
by Sutter Health | Jan 7, 2022
If you have cold-like symptoms and fear you have COVID-19 but aren’t sick enough to go to the hospital, stay home and take care of yourself. That’s the consensus of healthcare professionals as they grapple with short supplies of COVID-19 tests and long waits for...
by Sutter Health | Dec 12, 2021
Your health is vitally important to you … and to us. That’s why we launched this news site, Vitals, in December 2020 right in the middle of a pandemic. We wanted to give Northern Californians a venue for accurate, reliable health news, with stories written and...
by Ashley Boarman | Nov 11, 2021
“Did someone say there’s a dog on the unit?” ICU nurses at a bustling medical center in San Francisco are enjoying calming kisses and cuddles from Omega, California Pacific Medical Center’s resident “good boy.” Three-year-old Omega is no ordinary Labrador Golden...
