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Physician's app a contest finalist
Local resident Dr. Christopher Genobaga is a finalist in the 2011 American Medical Association's App Challenge for his idea, a mobile surgery card.
The card would allow surgeons to create an electronic ... Full story
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Free program for female cancer patients
"Look Good, Feel Better," a free program for women undergoing cancer treatments, is offered every other month in Yuba City by the American Cancer Society.
The next session is from 10 a.m. to noon M... Full story
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- MONDAY, SEPT. 12
"Look Good, Feel Better" session from 10 a.m. to noon at Sutter Medical Foundation, 969 Plumas St., Yuba City. Sponsored by American Cancer Society. Call 800-227-2345.
Class: Smoking Cessation from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Fremont-Rideout... Full story
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Quit smoking class to begin
Classes in the "Clean Break" program, to help participants quit smoking or chewing tobacco, are set Sept. 6, 7, 12 and 14 at Fremont-Rideout Cardiac Rehabilitation, 401 I St., Marysville.
The free program's f... Full story
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Root beer floats at support meeting
A "Root Beer Float Night" for the kids and a back-to-school panel are part of this week's meeting of the Yuba-Sutter Children's Type 1 Diabetes support group.
The meeting is from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday ... Full story
- Appeals court strikes down health insurance requirement
- ATLANTA — A federal appeals panel struck down the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's sweeping health care overhaul Friday, moving the argument over whether Americans can be required to buy health insurance a step closer to the U.S. Sup... Full story
- 36 million pounds of ground turkey being recalled
- WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture says meat giant Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to a death in Sacramento County and at least 76 other salmonella illnesses.
Illnesses in the outbreak date back to M... Full story
- Salmonella death found in Sacramento County
- LOS ANGELES – State health officials say a Sacramento County resident is the lone known death in a spate of salmonella poisonings across the country that appear to be linked to eating ground turkey meat.
State Department of Public Health spoke... Full story
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- SUNDAY, JULY 17
Child care preventative health lecture from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at American Red Cross, 2125 E. Onstott Road, Yuba City. Cost: $70. Call 673-1460.
Blood drive from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1764 Tierra Buena Road, Yuba City. Hosted b... Full story
- Unpublished study links diet soda to larger waistlines
- By Jane J. Lee/San Jose Mercury News
- SAN JOSE — No good deed goes unpunished, and that seems to include people who virtuously reach for diet sodas instead of the calorie-laden good stuff.
Before guzzling that artificially sweetened beverage in a haze of guilt-free carbonation, be... Full story
