public health
Can We Stop Putting Tech Billionaires’ Names On Bay Area Hospitals?
I was stuck in a traffic jam on CA-24 in Oakland and I started to look around. I like driving, I know it’s cool to hate cars, and I understand the root of their argument – cars are bad for cities, and investments in public transportation are what is needed
First Probable Case of Monkeypox Found in San Francisco Resident
The San Francisco Department of Public Health on Friday announced the first probable case of monkeypox has been identified in a San Francisco resident. The case was identified through testing at a California Department of Public Health laboratory. The individual traveled to a location with an outbreak in cases, is
The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide
A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But
🐦 Corvid-19 🐦 : What Experts Are Saying About Omicron
Welcome to the new year, with a new variant alive and well! There’s A Lot Of Information swirling out there, and I’m deeply grateful to all of the public health and science communicators disseminating accessible information to the public. I’ve been thinking about curation as care, especially amid the attention
The Race for a Vaccine Between Russia, China & the West
There are more than 160 different vaccines under development across the world, all of the labs are racing to find the cure to a virus that shutdown an entire planet and has killed 750,000 people world wide as of this morning. Whoever creates a safe, deliverable, vaccine for COVID 19
A Clinic By Sex Workers, For Sex Workers Has a New Home
If you’re in the business of sex work, it can be difficult to be totally frank with your doctor.Take the case of the dominatrix with neck and shoulder pain from repetitive stress using paddles and whips. Her doctors told her to stop whatever was causing the pain.