Even though size does(n’t) matter, there are times when you need to know what you are working with. Buying condoms is one of those times. While the video of a condom being stretched over someone’s head is impressive, and does rather invalidate the statement “I’m too big for condoms,” it Read More…
Students enrolled in the systemwide UC Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) can no longer receive in-network benefits at Walgreens pharmacies. The Tang Center announced Jan. 1 that SHIP-enrolled students can no longer receive in-network pricing on medical prescriptions filled at Walgreens. However, Kim LaPean, communications manager at the Tang Center, Read More…
On Aug. 15, the UC Student Health Insurance Plan will join insurance providers across the nation in starting to offer many female health services such as birth control, pap smears, virus testing and mammograms without requiring co-payments from patients. Read More…
About three weeks after the first cases of mumps was recorded within the UC Berkeley community, health officials warn that the outbreak is not over and the campus could face a second wave of cases soon. There are currently 16 confirmed mumps cases, 15 cases under investigation and 10 suspected Read More…
Tentative plans for the expansion of the UC Berkeley Recreational Sports Facility — which would create a new recreational “wellness” center for physical and mental health on campus — could be put to a student vote as early as a referendum spring semester. The facility, which offers services to more Read More…
Over 750 people attended UC Berkeley University Health Services’ second mumps vaccination clinic Tuesday in light of the mumps outbreak that emerged on campus in the last two weeks. Unlike the first vaccination clinic held Thursday, which prompted more than 900 students, faculty and staff to wait in line for over Read More…
The California Department of Public Health confirmed Monday that the mumps outbreak at UC Berkeley — which has grown to 44 suspected and confirmed cases — began when a UC Berkeley student contracted the virus in Great Britain. Department spokesperson Matt Conens said in an email Monday that laboratory-confirmed cases of Read More…
A mumps outbreak among the UC Berkeley community has increased to 27 suspected and confirmed cases, state officials said Friday. According to Ralph Montano, spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health, seven cases of the mumps have been confirmed at UC Berkeley. There are now 20 suspected cases of Read More…
In light of the recent mumps outbreak, hundreds of students and faculty braved intermittent rain Thursday to wait for a vaccine that immunizes against mumps, measles and rubella. At least 900 students, faculty and staff — who waited in line for an hour — were vaccinated Thursday, according to Kim Read More…
In light of the recent mumps outbreak, hundreds of students and faculty braved the intermittent rain Thursday to wait for an hour in a line that stretched around the Tang Center for a vaccine that immunizes against mumps, measles and rubella. With 20 confirmed and suspected cases of mumps, the Read More…
