Stanford Blood Center critically low on reserves, asks for donors

Surgeries in seven Bay Area hospitals may soon be postponed due to a critically low blood supply, the Stanford Blood Center announced on Thursday.

Leukemia patient with less than 50% match rate calls for more diverse stem cell donors

A 29-year-old software engineer in Silicon Valley who was once a healthy young professional is now fighting for his life and calling for increased diversity in the national bone marrow registry.

Glass particles detected in recalled cancer treatment drug, FDA says

The Food and Drug Administration said a voluntary recall was issued for Doxorubicin Hydrochloride Liposome Injection after glass particles were detected in some vials of the drug.

$1.3B in Medicaid money to California deferred over suspicions of fraud

The Republican administration also is imposing a six-month freeze on some new Medicare enrollments and warning states to investigate Medicaid fraud or risk losing funding.

Tax preparer sentenced for $600 million COVID-era tax fraud scheme

A New York woman is headed to prison for her role in a COVID-era tax scheme that sought to bilk the U.S. government out of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits that were meant to help businesses weather the pandemic.

Recall: Hundreds of Better Weather Fix Elixir products contain kratom, FDA says

The Food and Drug Administration found hundreds of boxes of Better Weather Fix Elixir products contained undeclared mitragynine and migragynine pseudoindoxyl (MP), which is a more potent form of kratom.

Glioblastoma vaccine shows early promise in boosting survival

A personalized DNA vaccine for glioblastoma, an aggressive and incurable brain cancer, appears safe and shows early signs of extending survival in some patients, according to a small phase 1 trial.

What is the hantavirus from a Stanford Medicine expert
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Hantavirus is rare and unable to cause a global pandemic, Jorge Salinas, the medical director of infection prevention at Stanford Health Care, expands on what you should know.

3 hospitalized after eating poisonous mushrooms in Napa County

Health officials in Napa County are warning people to not ingest wild mushrooms that may be poisonous after three people who ate them were hospitalized over the weekend. 

Skin cream sold nationwide recalled after staph bacteria found

A skin cream sold across the country in retail stores and online was recalled after some of it was found to be contaminated with the bacteria that causes staph infections.

Three King County, WA residents monitored for rare Andes hantavirus

Three King County residents are being monitored after possible exposure to Andes hantavirus linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship.

Hantavirus outbreak: 2 patients being monitored at Emory Hospital in Atlanta

Emory Healthcare officials provided an update on Monday regarding two patients being monitored in Atlanta after a deadly hantavirus outbreak on the M/V Hondius cruise ship.