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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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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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As Trump Allies Undercut Child Vaccination for Hepatitis B, Patient Advocates Warn Chronic Disease Will Spread

An advisory panel vote to stop recommending routine vaccination of newborns could release a new wave of chronic infections, ...
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As Trump Disrupts Homelessness Funding, Providers Hope City Can Prop Up Housing Programs

Nonprofit service providers and San Francisco officials are seeking funding approaches to blunt federal shifts that they ...
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Effects of Research Funding Cuts Ripple Through San Francisco Labs, Clinics and Lives

Sneha Rao, a UCSF PhD student in developmental biology, is helping lead the McClintock Letters campaign, which trains young scientists to connect their research to everyday lives through ...
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The Silent Killer: Hepatitis B Disproportionately Impacts Asian Americans

This reporting was supported with a California Health Equity Fellowship from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and a grant from the Pulitzer Center. If it weren’t for his wife suggesting ...
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California Pushes AI Regulation as Experts Reveal Looming Dangers

Bay Area technology companies are racing to build powerful artificial intelligence systems they admit could pose “catastrophic risks” to society. But a new report by academic experts commissioned by ...
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San Francisco Schools to Add Language Classes While Scaling Back Programs for English Learners

Visitation Valley School is among the campuses in SFUSD that have seen Cantonese biliteracy classes cut or consolidated. The San Francisco Unified School District announced plans in July to open a ...
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Researchers Seek Hepatitis B Cure as Trump Slashes Health Agency Funding

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 ...
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SF Has a Chance to Reinvent Its Mental Health Care System

A person’s journey through San Francisco’s behavioral health system can start at many points, including after their deteriorating condition lands them on the streets. Credit: Illustration by Noah ...
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Racial Disparities in Toxic Cleanup Times Especially Pronounced in SF, Data Shows

A toxic site in the Mission District, polluted with gasoline that leaked from storage tanks, is undergoing cleanup. Such remediations take longer in communities of color than majority-white ...
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Eviction Rates in SF Soar as Legal Aid Faces Deep Funding Cuts

Posters describing San Francisco's Tenant Right to Counsel Program are displayed in public transit stations. Credit: Lisa Rudman / San Francisco Public Press San Francisco is experiencing a surge in ...