All over town and out in the suburbs, folks hop on their bikes for the simplest of reasons, leaving their cars behind.

Inhalable Caffeine
Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the novel product is not without its risks.
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"What do you think is the best hospital for ordinary abdominal surgery?" asked a woman who needed to have her gallbladder removed.
Health and fitness events in the Sacramento region.
The holidays are over, January has arrived, and many of us enter the New Year determined to live our lives a little healthier than we did last year.
California's economy may be suffering and the state budget may be in disarray, but when it comes to healthy lifestyles, Californians -- or at least coastal Californians -- are leading the nation, according to The Atlantic magazine.
Health and fitness events in the Sacramento region.

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Dr. Michael Wilkes, director of global health and professor of medicine at UC Davis school of medicine, answers your questions about health care.

Q: First of all thank you for writing your weekly column. As a physicians' wife I appreciate that you pose some very important dilemnas and you are so open to what others might suggest. On the issue of a patient who has advanced colon cancer I think that it is important for you to continue to address the issue of informing other family members whenever the patient is in your office. By presenting various senarios your best hope would be that the patient would come to see that by neglecting to inform her family she will be causing others future suffering. Hopefully with your prodding the patient will come around.
The other question i have for you involves my husband who needs a hip replacement. he consulted with two respected orthopedic surgeons and when he received pre op orders from both (one office forgot that he had cancelled with them)they asked for a chest x ray, urinanalysis and multiple blood studies (cholestral etc). Do any doctors realize that medicare does not pay for this X ray (which is $238. at RAS in Sac) unless it is done in a hospital; and Mercy San Juan wouldn't even guarantee that they could bill medicare. Medicare doesn't pay because they said "the chest x ray was unnecessary". When will doctors learn that they order way too many tests and rarely look at the results. I would greatly appreciate any response from you and KEEP YOUR COLUMN COMING.
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