Man Diagnosed With Cancer Arrested In Attempted Killings Of His Doctors
Inside Yue Chen's rental car, officers found two loaded semiautomatic weapons, a white rubber mask and a notebook with the names and addresses of several doctors, according to a Palo Alto police report.
San Jose Mercury News:
Cancer Patient Wanted To Kill Three Doctors: Authorities
A Stage 4 cancer patient angry that Bay Area doctors allegedly treated him like a “laboratory monkey” is suspected of setting out to kill three of them, armed with two handguns and Google maps of directions to their homes, according to authorities. Yue Chen, 58, also planned to kill himself after he carried out what he considered a revenge mission, but he failed to find any of the doctors, got lost and may have been on his way back to his Visalia home when he was arrested May 31 on Highway 101 in San Jose. (Gomez, 6/6)
In other news from across the state —
The Mercury News:
UCSF Study Links Chronic Pain To Dementia In Older Adults
Older people with persistent pain show quicker declines in memory as they age and are more likely to have dementia years later, indicating that chronic pain may be related to changes in the brain that contribute to memory loss, according to a new study from UC San Francisco. The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, appears to be the first to make this link. (Seipel, 6/6)
The Bakersfield Californian:
Valley Fever Infected 2,310 In Kern County Last Year, The Worst Year For The Disease Since 2011 Epidemic
More people in Kern County have gotten sick with valley fever than public health officials previously thought, marking the third straight year infections have risen. Kern County Department of Public Health Services officials revised their numbers this week, announcing that 2,310 people were infected with valley fever in 2016 – roughly an 18 percent increase over what they announced in April. The number of fatalities – six – didn’t change. (Pierce, 6/6)