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/PRNewswire/ -- Technology provider SONIFI Health has partnered with Tennessee-based healthcare system Williamson Health to implement technology solutions...

Pharmacists can provide a range of services for travelers, including health guidance for their trip and vaccinations.

Pharmacists can provide a range of services for travelers, including health guidance for their trip and vaccinations.

If final approvals come as expected, COVID-19 vaccines for young children will be available at clinics and doctors offices this week.

Listen to this article RENSSELAER — Thanks to the friends and family of Jeff Goad, Rensselaer Parks program director Heather Hall will see a vision become reality with the construction of the Jeff Goad Healthy Youth Parks Education Recreation (HYPER) Center for Education at Brookside Park this summer. The permanent education center will allow Hall to host classes for arts, gardening, STEM learning and healthy food preparation in a safe indoor environment that protects participants from th...

Print At first glance, the timing couldn’t be worse: thousands of COVID-19 vaccines going on ice at the same time California is preparing to make them available for everyone 16 and older. But how difficult will Tuesday’s decision to pause use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine — made on the recommendation of federal health officials following reports of six cases of serious blood clots nationwide — actually make it to get a shot in California? While officials say the impact here will be ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom says his administration has been planning for a mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign for months. Why have things gone so wrong -- for him and his fellow Californians?

Despite Months to Prep, Why California Lags on COVID Vaccination No one ever said that distributing a vaccine to tens of millions of Californians spread out across 58 counties in the middle of a pandemic would be easy. But Gov. Gavin Newsom came pretty close last October. At a press conference on the 19th, the governor assured the public that California has “long been in the vaccination business.” That projection of confidence came just three days after the CEO of the pharmaceutical giant P...

Jeff Smith, executive officer for Santa Clara County, is one of those critics. “For the past year, the entire approach that the governor has taken to the pandemic has been disorganized and petulant,” said Smith, who disagrees that county governments are sitting on unused vaccine. “Whenever he feels like he’s getting bad press, he does something. And the things that he does are not wise things and they’re not driven by scientific decisions,” said Smith. A vaccine rollout that is unpr...