by Monique Binkley Smith | Apr 13, 2023
Shaniya Peterson was jumping rope with her two little girls the day after Thanksgiving when she began feeling severe pain in her back, jaw and back of the head. She lay down thinking she’d overdone it in the cold, but the pain didn’t go away. Then she got what she...
by Sutter Health | Jun 2, 2022
By Clayton Warren and Monique Binkley Smith, Vitals contributors It’s a safe bet that most 84-year-olds who’ve recently had triple heart bypass surgery might at least consider slowing down, but not longtime Oakland resident Leonard Mercer. Originally from the...
