By ANNA TONG, Sacramento Bee

Santas worry about H1N1 flu

The thought of kids with runny noses sitting in Santa's lap sharing their deepest desires and germs this holiday season isn't eliciting the usual "Ho, ho, ho." It's more of an "Oh, no, no."

As in, "Oh no, don't give Santa swine flu."

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Patients often turn first to 'Dr. Google' for health care advice

A video of a cheerleader supposedly crippled after getting the H1N1 flu vaccine has received almost a million hits on the Internet.

It's driving doctors crazy, as they insist the vaccine is safe and anti-vaccine preachers are plain wrong.

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Calif. soda survey shows link between sugared drinks, obesity

A sweeping statewide study released today points to soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages as one of the main reasons why we are fat.

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Sacramento, Calif., has more single women than men

Single men, listen up: Sacramento, Calif., is the only metropolitan area on the West Coast where there are more single women than men.

What has the region's singles scene so lopsided are the 20,000 more single women than single men over age 34, according U.S. census data from 2006.

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Nurses upset at policy of reusing masks for swine flu protection

In the race to check the H1N1 pandemic, some California nurses are at odds with their hospitals. They complain that rules on the use of one simple, yet important weapon -- respirators -- may not protect them from on-the-job exposure to the virus.

But hospitals counter that their respirator practices are safe.

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