Telehealth mental health startup Cerebral — after receiving a formal request from the federal government — admitted to sharing the private health information of more than 3.1 million patients in the United States with several advertisers and social media platforms. According to the company’s “Notice of HIPAA Privacy Breach,” the data disclosed “varied depending on what actions individuals took ...

Feeling dissatisfied and lonely? You might want to snag tickets to a few of your favorite team’s games. New research connects viewing live sporting events with higher levels of life satisfaction and lower levels of loneliness – and researchers say live sporting events could be used to improve public health. The study, published in Frontiers ...

That morning cup of coffee might provide more benefits than just a quick energy boost. New research suggests that consuming higher levels of caffeine could help curb body fat and reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Bristol, the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and Imperial College in London conducted the study, which was ...

Losing weight — even if some pounds are gained back — may help your heart over the long term, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. The findings may be welcome news to those who have found it difficult to keep weight off and feared the risks thought ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom would face new deadlines on his administration’s work to revamp the state’s health care system under a bill scheduled to be introduced Tuesday in the state Legislature.

Four years after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order vowing to reduce prescription drug costs in California, the state is bringing $30 insulin to Californians — and working to create its own overdose-reversing drug.