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Kaiser and Healthcare Workers Reach Tentative Deal, Ending Largest Healthcare Strike In U.S. History

The biggest healthcare worker strike in the nation’s history technically only lasted three days, but resulted in a 21% wage increase for pandemic-frazzled employees of the Oakland-based healthcare conglomerate Kaiser Permanente.

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Amazon Buying Up SF-Based One Medical for a Reported $3.9 Billion

Those One Medical offices that have popped up around town over the last ten years are actually a national chain, and Amazon just bought up that SF-based chain for nearly $4 billion.

InfoWars Supplements Contain 'Significant Levels Of Lead,' Says Oakland-Based Health Watchdog Group

Noted conspiracy enthusiast Alex Jones has allegedly been selling people dietary supplements with dangerously high lead content through the InfoWars storefront, says the Oakland-based watchdog group, Center for Environmental Health (CEH). According to

Prescription Drug Pricing To Become More Transparent Thanks To New California Law

Californians are going to get a much better understanding of how prescriptions drugs are impacting healthcare premiums thanks to new legislation that was just signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. According to

SF Mayor Reacts With Disgust As House Of Representatives Pass American Health Care Act

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee had harsh words for the Republican members of the House of Representatives who voted 217-213 on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare with what they are calling

Forbes: Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Net Worth Now Zero Dollars

Elizabeth Holmes, the CEO of blood testing startup Theranos, has had a rough year. News broke in April that the company, which she founded, was under criminal investigation and an SEC probe for

First Look Inside The New Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg SF General Hospital

Peek inside new SF General Hospital: 2x emergency beds, more trauma, operating rooms, roof garden. Opens spring 2016 pic.twitter.com/B5RLVyCvSH— Juan Carlos Guerrero (@JuanCarlosABC7) November 17, 2015 Even though it won't

Chronicle Workers Will Protest Tomorrow With 15-Minute Smoke Break, Red Clothing

To protest the Hearst Corporation's plan to shoulder San Francisco Chronicle employees with an additional health care burden, members of the Chronicle staff plan to step away from their desks at precisely 3:

SF Chronicle Demands Fair Health Care Via Online Campaign

We here at SFist need to rib the Chronicle or SFGate now and then. In turn, they need to send us angry emails demanding our phone number. It's a dysfunctional relationship, but it

Meanwhile, In Berkeley: Paw Fund to Help Pets of the Homeless

Berkeleyside effortlessly tugs our heart strings today with a story about Paw Fund, a clinic for pets of homeless people started by Jill Posener, a photographer and onetime Animal Care Commissioner. Behold: In

Obama's Health Care Reform Won't Kill HealthySF, Just Slim It Down

When President Obama's federal health care reforms finally kick in starting in 2014, it won't totally eliminate the need for San Francisco's city-wide universal health care coverage program, the Examiner reports today. According

Federal Judge Rejects Obama's Healthcare Reform

A federal judge in Virginia ruled President Obama's healthcare law unconstitutional, the first kind of ruling on Obama's landmark (and much needed?) reform. "Judge Henry E. Hudson of the Eastern District Court in

Are You Losing COBRA Coverage Next Month?

The Chron today has a helpful little public service tidbit for those who may be losing their subsidized COBRA health coverage on Monday, which is when the federal COBRA subsidy ends for those

NorCal Man Arrested for Threatening Nancy Pelosi

A Northern California man was arrested in connection with making "threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform." Sparked by racist hate group The Tea Party (let's just say)

Nancy Pelosi Goes to Glide

After turning 70 on Friday, Nancy Pelosi headed to Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin on Sunday to celebrate the passage of a national health care bill. Praising the freshly-signed reform bill in

State GOP Hopefuls Urge California to File Suit Against Health Care Legislation

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday said the national health care plan could cost California billions. Gubernatorial hopeful and current Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner also chimed in with similar sentiments, followed by his Republican

Health Bill Won't Trump Healthy SF

According to CBS 5/AP, "San Francisco officials said health care reform legislation passed by Congress won't do away with the city's universal health care program." Why? Well, according to Gavin Newsom and

Jerry Brown Subpoenas Health Insurers

California Attorney General Jerry Brown (and perhaps your next Governor?) subpoenaed the financial records from several health insurance companies yesterday. Why? Because he's he's worried that seven of the state's largest health insurance

New State Law To Limits Patient Wait Time To See Doctor

by Amy Crocker While national health care faced a set back this week with the loss of the 60th Democratic senate seat, California took a step forward. A new state law sets limits

Whole Foods Customers: Have You Been Boycotting?

We were reminded yesterday of the recent Whole Foods boycott that's been gaining steam in the past month. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey wrote a Wall Street Journal editorial last month opposing the

Get Poked for Free On Tuesdays

What with all this ballyhooing over health care, would you like to test drive some alternative medicinal practices? Take, for example, the prickly art of acupuncture, the popular practice of inserting tiny needles

Elderly Health Care Zealots Protest Barbara Boxer Book Signing

On Saturday, your grandfather and his Shriner buddies protested Barbara Boxer's book signing in Danville. According to Mercury News, "[a]bout 100 people, many with picket signs, covered the sidewalks outside Rakestraw Books

DiFi Among Those Putting Breaks On Obama Health Plan

Call it what you will, but hometown gal Nancy Pelosi's push to get the President's health care initiative through Congress before their August recess appears to be failing, and among those stalling it

Phony Dentist Con-Man, Or the Robin Hood of Root Canals? You Decide

Mario Pacheco, whose makeshift home dental clinic in Oakland was raided by authorities, guns drawn on Friday, tells CBS 5 today that he was "just doing what [he] could to help people." As

SF Agency Donates $40.6M for Stem Cell Training Grants

Delightful news, folks. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (a stem cell research funding agency established thanks to Prop 71 in the 2004 election) put their seal of approval on 15 grants to