SF Politics Biden's Medicaid Chief Daniel Tsai Appointed to Lead SF's Department of Public Health Seeking refuge from the current Trump era in Washington, a former Biden administration health official has just landed a job in SF's Lurie administration.
SF News Illegal Medical Lab Found in Warehouse Near Fresno, With Bioengineered Mice, COVID and Hepatitis Material On Site Authorities are investigating after a warehouse in Reedley City, owned by a company operating under the name "Prestige Biotech," turned to house infectious agents and biohazardous materials.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Public Health Director: Indoor Dining Not Happening Anytime Soon As expected, Mayor London Breed and Dr. Grant Colfax gave their latest updates today on businesses that are allowed to reopen under public health orders, with September 1 being the latest goalpost for certain categories of businesses.
SF News Gilroy-Based Boogaloo Follower Arrested For Threats Against Public Health Officer A 55-year-old community college instructor in the South Bay, has been arrested for allegedly making repeated criminal threats against Santa Clara County Public Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody.
SF News Sonoma County Sheriff Decides to Take Trumpian Stand Against Public Health Orders Because 'Freedom' The sheriff up in Sonoma County would like everyone to know that he stands for freedom, and he's frankly tired of all this science mumbo jumbo that's keeping him from getting a haircut, or whatever.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Herbal Tea Sold In Chinatown Shop Poisons Two Two people in the last month have been sickened from a toxin found in an herbal tea they each purchased from the same Chinatown herbalist. As KRON 4 reports via the Health Department,
SF News Marin County Meningitis Death Puts Larkspur SoulCycle Riders On Alert Around 200 people who have recently taken a class at the SoulCycle in Larkspur have been contacted by the Marin County Department of Public Health after a man who worked out at the
SF News Sick Yet? Bay Area Hit With Severe Flu Outbreak I hope you got your flu shot, because the San Francisco Bay Area is dealing with a "widespread" influenza outbreak before flu season has likely even peaked. As local public health officials are
SF News Kids' Exposure To Lead In Oakland's Fruitvale District Draws Comparisons To Flint Children in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland are exposed to dangerous levels of lead, and a new report finds that contamination levels are even higher than those of Flint, Michigan. Reuters reported on
SF News Two Babies Born In California With Microcephaly Related To Zika Virus State health officials announced Thursday that two infants have been born in California with the severe birth defect associated with the Zika virus, microcephaly. According to the Sacramento Bee, both cases occurred sometime
SF News Plague Bacterium Turns Up In South Lake Tahoe In some not-great epidemiological news, bacteria that cause plague sometimes called bubonic plague have been discovered in fleas found on a chipmunk in South Lake Tahoe, prompting The California Department of Public Health
SF News Sorry Kool Camel Kids, Bill Raising California Smoking Age To 21 Signed Into Law Governor Jerry Brown yesterday signed into law a host of new bills designed to regulate tobacco and nicotine products, the most impactful of which is the raising of the statewide smoking age from
SF News Counterfeit Xanax Has Now Killed At Least Three People In SF Pills imprinted with the name Xanax that are being sold on the streets of SF have now been blamed for the deaths of three people, and there may be more to come. We
SF News The Bay Area Has Killer Bees For The First Time Ever Researchers say that the breed of so-called "africanized" honeybees sometimes known as “killer bees” for their protective, sometimes lethal instinct to attack when their hive is threatened have been detected in the Bay
SF News Congratulations: S.F. Likely Source Of New Strain Of Gonorrhea Last year the talk was about syphilis being on the rise in S.F., and across the country a new, antibiotic-resistant strain of the clap was making headlines too. Well, now they say
SF News Polio-Like Illness Appears In Several California Children, Including Berkeley Girl File under: the last thing we need right now. A mysterious virus whose onset, complete with paralysis and respiratory problems, mimics that of polio, has infected a small group of California children in
SF News San Francisco Groups To Explore Handing Out Free Crack Pipes In an effort to curb HIV infections in San Francisco, members of local HIV prevention groups are cooking up a new plan to distribute pipes to crack users who they say are at
SF News Swine Flu Death Toll On The Rise Do you remember swine flu? Swine flu remembers you. And now that we're in the depths of the bowels of the pits of flu season (bizarre weather be damned), the dreaded H1N1 virus
SF News Have You Gotten Your Flu Shot? Relatively young, healthy people have been dying from the H1N1 flu strain going around this year not in large in numbers, but still. There have so far been nine Bay Area flu deaths
SF News Treasure Island Could (Still) Be Radioactive That eerie glow? Not necessarily a harmless glowstick-toting Deadmau5 fan. In another installment of jolly local housing news, a new report by the state health department suggests that children living on Treasure Island
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Soda Responds To San Francisco's Proposed Soda Tax As San Francisco braces itself for the possibility of spending a quarter extra just for the privilege of enjoying an ice cold can of bubbly corn syrup, the lobbyists from Big Soda would
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here Comes San Francisco's Soda Tax In nanny state news: Supervisor Scott Wiener plans to introduce legislation this week that would add a 24-cent tax on every can of soda sold in the city of San Francisco. Wiener's bill
Arts & Entertainment What Are All Of Those Smiling Penises In The Window About? If you've walked around San Francisco's Castro District recently, you might have come across a scene like this: a gaggle of smiling penises starring at you from select storefronts. Don't be frightened. It's
SF News San Francisco Sues Nevada For Being A Horrible Neighbor After news broke earlier this year that a psychiatric hospital in Las Vegas was loading mental patients on Greyhound buses and shipping them out of the state to San Francisco and L.A.
SF News S.F. Gays Use Sharp Jewelry To Spread AIDS, Claims Pat Robertson Sick television evangelist Pat Robertson took to the air on Tuesday on the 700 Club to make wild, untrue claims about gay man in San Francisco and their use of jewelry. Specifically, he
