San Jose Health News

FreeDentistFinder.com debuts this week with their new Dentist Finder service, fulfilling their mission to help dental patients effortlessly find a dentist near their home, free of charge. The backbone of this service is the Quick Zip Search technology. The Quick...

Health care consumers are encouraged to comparison-shop on things like doctor's fees and heart surgery rates. But unfortunately, most of us have little clear or useful information to go shopping with. "When you go to the doctor, how much you...

After losing his job in February, and now facing a possible foreclosure sale of his San Jose house three days before Christmas, the unemployed operations manager learned Tuesday that his monthly government-subsidized health insurance premiums will immediately jump 65 percent...

President Barack Obama refers to the plan as “comprehensive health insurance reform,” though essentially none of its provisions are likely to be available to the nation’s estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants, a group that typically receives no insurance at work...

However, the study still found that little girls worry about being fat. The role of media in shaping girls' perceptions of their appearances has been a concern for many years. Several studies suggest that grade-school-age girls and teens compare themselves...

Calif. — In an era when PCs perform like supercomputers, and supercomputers carry out inhuman feats of calculation, some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley say there are still crucial ways in which a computer can't match the problem-solving...

No matter what the drug industry claims about their educational value, these spots are nothing more than the handiwork of snake oil salesmen pitching their potions to masses of people wholly unqualified to make informed decisions about such products.

With a huge number of residents who buy health care on their own and relatively few companies selling them coverage, California is just the kind of market in need of a new government-run insurance plan, supporters of the controversial proposal...