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(American Chemical Society) Valentine's Day is Saturday, and people will be spending billions on their sweethearts. Much of that cash will be dropped on sweet-smelling roses. But did you know that one minor chemical chan...

Fitness monitors may not be any more accurate than smartphone apps at recording activity, a new study reveals.

Cigarette smoking has long been established to be bad for the health. Now, researchers have found that there should actually be more on the list of diseases formally linked to tobacco use.

Those taking the BART train between Lafayette and San Francisco have been potentially exposed to measles as a commuter was diagnosed with the disease in Contra Costa.

Christine White, a leukemia patient in San Francisco, files a lawsuit against the state of California to allow doctor-assisted suicide. Other states such as Oregon allow doctor-assisted suicide.

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