Eric Steger donates a lot — not money, but parts of his body. And he gives them to people he doesn’t know. In 2007, the 50-year-old Sunnyvale man donated bone marrow to a dying woman in Maryland, saving her life. In 2010, he flew to Israel to donate a kidney to a desperately ill woman,…
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Q&A: She really, really wants you to have an advance health care directive
Bay Area attorney Joanna Weinberg, 73, has worked on health policy for more than 25 years at UCSF’s Institute for Health and Aging. For the past decade or…
Books
‘Prozac Nation’ author Elizabeth Wurtzel dies of breast cancer at age 52
Author Elizabeth Wurtzel, best known for her memoir “Prozac Nation,” died at age 52 after a five-year fight with breast cancer. Wurtzel’s blockbuster…
Seniors
Personal playlists help spark memories at Moldaw
Music touches people, says Gena Brigham, lifestyles director at Moldaw Residences in Palo Alto. “It motivates. It inspires,” she says. “It moves people.…
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Q&A: She teaches people with serious diseases how to help themselves
In 1979 Kate Lorig began researching and developing a program at the Stanford School of Medicine that emphasized self-help skills for people with…
Parenting
Lessons learned when I was pregnant and fate dealt me a scary hand
I was home when the contractions began. It was early evening. I was 26 weeks pregnant. I thought it was nothing and told my hubby it was nothing, but took…
Health
Women, girls think pink at Peninsula Challah Bake
More than 225 women and girls got together in Palo Alto on Nov. 14 for the Great Pink Challah Bake, co-hosted by the Jewish Study Network and the Oshman…
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Acts of kindness are good for your health
My daughter teaches at a school where a major theme for the students this year is doing acts of kindness. This prompted me to wonder about the health…
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Learn more about BRCA gene, join a study — or do both
Oncologist Pamela Munster wants Jews to know something about cancer risk. “In Ashkenazi Jews, the risk for BRCA mutation is almost 1 in 50,” she said,…