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Health Experts Brace for Return of Conversion Therapy for LGBTQ+ Youth

Mental health experts warn of dire outcomes as the Supreme Court considers a case that could overturn a ban on conversion ...
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City Sat on Plutonium Findings, Then Faulted Navy Over Delay

San Francisco officials waited nearly a month to alert Hunters Point Shipyard neighbors about radioactive reading while ...
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HUD Scrambles Homelessness Funding Twice in One Month, Throwing Local Service Providers Into Uncertainty

HUD has rescinded a plan to overhaul how it funds homelessness programs, leaving cities unsure when billions of dollars will ...
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San Francisco Halts Plan to Displace Dozens of Care Facility Residents With Severe Mental Illness

San Francisco health officials have reversed a controversial plan to uproot 82 long-term residents with severe mental illness ...
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Treasure Island, a ‘Health Care Desert,’ Gains a Clinic on Wheels

Treasure Island has no permanent medical service, nor does the city plan to establish any. One service agency deployed a medical van to bridge the gap.
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‘Civic,’ From the San Francisco Public Press

Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again. “Civic” is the flagship radio program and podcast from the San Francisco Public Press. It airs Thursdays at 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on KSFP, ...
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Cold War Scientists Pushed Ethical Boundaries With Radiation Experiments

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: ...
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A Community of Color Contends With the Navy’s Toxic Legacy

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 ...
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Fillmore Revisited — How Redevelopment Tore Through the Western Addition

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 ...
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The Often Vicious Cycle Through SF’s Strained Mental Health Care and Detention System

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 ...
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How a San Francisco Navy Lab Became a Hub for Human Radiation Experiments

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 ...
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Toxic Waste Cleanups Take Longer in Marginalized Communities

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 ...