Exposed
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Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans

11.25.2024
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In the second of two podcast episodes of “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point,” reporter Rebecca Bowe lays out what we know from scattered documents and a few remaining eyewitnesses about a Cold War research program that pushed ethical boundaries in the name of national defense.

Bowe speaks with veterans who describe their experiences as guinea pigs in field decontamination exercises that yielded little useful data, and talks with colleague Chris Roberts about what the surviving record say about tests involving injection and ingestion of radioactive substances.

“Civic” Podcast

Los Residentes Latinx de SF Lucharon con la Salud Mental Durante el COVID. Ahora Hay una Aplicación Para Eso

11.22.2024
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Este artículo está adaptado de un episodio de nuestro pódcast, “Civic.” Haz clic en el reproductor de audio a continuación para escuchar la historia completa. Read this story in English. Durante el punto álgido de la pandemia de COVID-19, los residentes Latinx de San Francisco experimentaron tasas más altas de infección y muertes, así como mayores pérdidas de ingresos y vivienda en comparación con otros grupos étnicos. “Perdimos nuestros trabajos. Mucha gente perdió a sus familias, amigos,” dijo Connie Rivera, quien tiene y opera junto a su esposo dos tiendas en el Distrito de la Misión.

Health
A political demonstrator holds up a sign that reads, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. -God”

As Anti-Abortion Protests Ramp Up, SF Lawmaker Moves to Protect Clinics

10.22.2024
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Demonstrations against Planned Parenthood’s San Franciso facility have escalated and at times been threatening, sources say.

Supervisor Catherine Stefani said she would propose new regulations Tuesday to increase safety at reproductive care clinics, including by extending the buffer zone between the properties and protesters’ amplified sound.

Health
A man wearing dark clothing stands behind a table with syringes and trays of other medical supplies. The words "THIS SITE SAVES LIVES" above "ESTE SITIO SALVA VIDAS" are painted in blue in large letters high on the wall behind him.

Overdose Prevention Centers — Nonstarter in SF, Despite Success in NYC

10.16.2024
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San Francisco officials appear to have abandoned efforts to open facilities where people can consume drugs under supervision — even as more cities adopt the model to prevent deadly overdoses.

Recent studies show that overdose prevention centers save lives, keep people from consuming drugs in public and do not lead to increased crime.

Elections
Women's March, 2017, in San Francisco.

Proposition O — Protect Access to Reproductive Care

10.07.2024
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See our November 2024 SF Voter Guide for a nonpartisan analysis of measures on the San Francisco ballot, for the election occurring Nov. 5, 2024. The following measure is on that ballot. Proposition O would strengthen access to abortion and reproductive care in San Francisco and protect the privacy of patients and health care providers. Listen to a summary of what this ballot measure would do.

Elections
A woman walks out of the Chinatown Public Health Center.

Proposition B — Bonds to Enhance Health Care Facilities and Public Spaces

10.07.2024
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See our November 2024 SF Voter Guide for a nonpartisan analysis of measures on the San Francisco ballot, for the election occurring Nov. 5, 2024. The following measure is on that ballot. Proposition B would let San Francisco borrow up to $390 million to carry out infrastructure and other projects, like upgrading health care facilities, creating homeless shelter, repaving roads and renovating Harvey Milk Plaza, the Castro neighborhood spot honoring the city’s first openly gay supervisor, who along with Mayor George Moscone was assassinated in 1978. Listen to a summary of what this ballot measure would do.

Community

After Months-Long Coma, This Latino Immigrant Worker Is Still Fighting Mysterious Symptoms

05.24.2024
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Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar and his housemates are members of a community that may have been hardest hit by COVID-19 in San Francisco: immigrants, especially those working unprotected essential jobs. While the devastating impacts on Latinx residents in the Mission District and Bayview are increasingly documented, the lingering, and sometimes extreme, symptoms of infection are much less understood.