San Francisco health officials have reversed a controversial plan to uproot 82 long-term residents with severe mental illness ...
San Francisco officials waited nearly a month to alert Hunters Point Shipyard neighbors about radioactive reading while ...
An advisory panel vote to stop recommending routine vaccination of newborns could release a new wave of chronic infections, ...
Nonprofit service providers and San Francisco officials are seeking funding approaches to blunt federal shifts that they ...
In September 1956, Cpl. Eldridge Jones found himself atop a sunbaked roof at an old Army camp about an hour outside San Francisco, shoveling radioactive dirt. Too young for Korea and too old for ...
Many unhoused people receive mental health care through the city’s Street Crisis Response Team, in their signature red van — or through forced psychiatric detention. Credit: Illustration by Madison ...
Researchers wrote that testing on animals first would have produced unreliable results, so they proceeded to apply radioactive substances to human skin to see how well it could be cleaned off. Source: ...
Arieann Harrison talks with longtime Hunters Point resident Antoine Mahan about his concern that truck traffic to and from the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard may be worsening air quality along Innes ...
Book chapter excerpted and lightly adapted, with permission of Chris Carlsson and Lisa Ruth Elliott, editors, from “Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco ...
Dr. Maurizio Bonacini, a gastroenterologist at UCSF, is leading one arm of an international clinical trial seeking a cure for chronic hepatitis B. Credit: Jason Winshell / San Francisco Public Press ...
Environmental health advocate Raymond Tompkins served on a community panel tasked with reviewing cleanup of toxic and radioactive pollution in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood before the Navy ...
In the 1950s, the army ordered Eldridge Jones to clean up radioactive materials scientists had spread outdoors to study possible decontamination methods in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Credit: ...