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The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors has approved a plan to consolidate medical and mental health services in a building the county already leases in Rialto.

Today represents a day of fear, uncertainty, strength and survival for Teresa Moreno. On Sept. 30, 2004, Moreno, then 34 and the mother of three young children, found out she had breast cancer.

r Eric Frykman, Riverside County's Community Health Agency director and public health officer, resigned Thursday.

Privately-owned Physicians for Healthy Hospitals, which bought Valley Health System assets almost a year ago, has received approval from Valley Health to make quarterly installment payments rather than a $400,000 annual lump sum payment next month.

Health care providers and public health officials are urging children and adults to have flu vaccinations this year to protect them from influenza in the coming months.

Kaiser's Permanente's Riverside Medical Center today will perform more than a dozen free outpatient procedures on Riverside County residents who need them but can't afford them.

Federal and state officials Thursday encouraged Inland area doctors to be vigilant in their practices to prevent identity theft and fraud affecting patients and themselves.

Relatives and friends caring for aging or disabled Californians are under financial and emotional strains and likely to face greater burdens because of recent state budget reductions, according to new research.

Two Riverside planners beginning Thursday will lead a UC Riverside Extension course to teach the importance of considering health when designing communities.

CORRECTION: This story has been updated from an earlier version to correct the number of child drowning deaths so far this year in San Bernardino County.

Hemet Hospice Volunteers will be holding a "Hospice 101" session Oct. 3 that will be open to anyone who would like to understand more about how hospice care works.

Riverside County's public hospital will expand its free, non-emergency transportation services to reach more poor, elderly and disabled patients who need help getting to clinic appointments.

Mallory Olson knew she would not succeed with diets, exercise and weight-loss camps. She had tried them all beginning in her early teens. "I would work off 20 pounds," she recalled. "Then it would come back plus more.

A little-known museum in Riverside is home to a wacky, weird and wonderful collection that includes an electric prostate warmer, a violet ray generator to cure baldness and an artificial eye made of blown glass.

The second Inland Empire Corset Run, to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation's quest to find a cure for breast cancer, is planned for Sept. 24.

Hundreds of Inland students are missing classes because they haven't received whooping cough vaccinations.

Clara McDonald thought her doctor would be performing throat surgery last month to relieve a condition that caused her to stop breathing while she slept. "He told me that a robot was going to do it," she said.

Piper Dellums has been tapped as the keynote speaker at "A Touch of Love," a women's conference Sept. 17 in Hemet. Dellums will share her personal story of tragedies and triumphs to inspire other women to take charge of their lives.

A 38-year-old Riverside woman's life ended last month the way domestic violence experts say they could have predicted.