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San Diego Foundation Grants $1.3 Million For Early Childhood Programs POSTED BY CHRISTINE HUARD  The San Diego Foundation Thursday announced it has given $1.3 million in grants to eight nonprofit programs in San Diego County through its Early Childhood Initiative in order to increase access to affordable, quality care for children, strengthen families and support jobs. The …

Blood type is a characteristic we inherit from our parents and there are four major blood groups: A, B, AB and O. Danish researchers looked at nearly 500,000 people who tested positive for COVID-19 and found that people with type O were underrepresented. In a study published in the journal Blood Advances, the researchers found …

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The Food and Drug Administration has released new guidelines to vaccine makers with added safety measures that experts say will push back the timeline, making the release of a COVID-19 vaccine before the election highly unlikely. The guidelines lay out what it will take for companies to secure a fast-tracked authorization …

Gilead Sciences is a California-based company, with offices in Oceanside, making the experimental drug Remdesivir. That drug saved San Diegan Troy Kahle’s life and has saved others. “I did survive and I did have the five-day treatment,” Kahle said. He went to the hospital March 24 and shortly after went into a medically induced coma. …

City of San Diego ousts homeless service provider, which said Navigation Center was unworkable By GARY WARTH SAN DIEGO — The city of San Diego has terminated its contract with the service provider running its Housing Navigation Center downtown. City officials said they will take it over next month and rename it and they will base its homeless …

Meet Dr. Marsha Spitzer Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Marsha Spitzer. Thanks for sharing your story with us Dr. Spitzer. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there. After medical school and pediatric residency training on the East Coast, I spent two years in Guam as a …

Commentary: We’re doctors with a message for young people. You can control this pandemic and lead. By JEANNETTE L. ALDOUS , CHRISTIAN B. RAMERS Dear teens and twentysomethings of San Diego County, Let us first take the opportunity to recognize you for all that you have done recently to move this country forward on social …

San Diego County this week narrowly avoided more business closures and school reopening delays. Many establishments are already limited on how many customers they can serve indoors, and the region’s case rate placed us just below a threshold that would’ve triggered a total shutdown of most indoor spaces. The back and forth over what can …

County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, medical experts encourage San Diegans to battle COVID-19 County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said now is the time to battle COVID-19, not each other. Author: CBS News 8 Team SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Medical professionals, scientists, community leaders and County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher held a media conference Monday to address the battle against …

Gloria Recognizes Family Health Centers of San Diego for Their COVID-19 Response, Service to Low-Income Communities SAN DIEGO, CA – For their longstanding efforts to provide affordable and high-quality health care to low-income and medically underserved communities throughout the region, California State Assemblymember Todd Gloria (D-San Diego) announced today that he has named Family Health Centers of San …