by Angie Sheets | Apr 21, 2022
For National Volunteer Week (April 17-23), Vitals will introduce readers to a few of the thousands of Northern Californians who give their valuable time to help patients, visitors and staff at medical facilities. In this final installment, we meet Alyce Glazer, who...
by Ashley Boarman | Apr 11, 2022
Sutter Health is sending its largest-ever shipment of medical supplies to Ukraine through humanitarian partner MedShare. The donation proves deeply personal for one healthcare worker at the organization who stepped up to help. All it took was a single email to get...
by Ashley Boarman | Mar 15, 2022
Will there be a cure for cancer in our lifetime? It is hard to say, but it’s certainly a moonshot worth taking. For now, the medical community continues to make remarkable progress in the fight against cancer. “Early diagnosis and new therapies are our most useful...
by Ashley Boarman | Feb 16, 2022
Dr. Robert Mayle, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon in Novato, Calif., has a new partner — a robot. A new knee replacement robot has taken up residence in an operating suite at Novato Community Hospital, and Dr. Mayle says the robot doesn’t replace him...
by Sutter Health | Feb 16, 2022
By Karin Fleming and Ashley Boarman, Vitals contributors Ovarian cancer has long been thought to be a stealth disease, with many women discovering they have it only after the illness reaches a more serious stage. Now a new review of ovarian cancer records shows more...
