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Public Health Policy

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    February 14, 2012

    Keep VD Out of Valentine's Day, Use a Condom

    ​While they have the attention of lovers and horny people everywhere, health officials are camping onto Valentine's Day to promote National Condom Week. And that's probably a good idea, considering the news last week detailing San Francisco's STD problem. Today, the California Family Health Counci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    City Declares OccupySF A Public Health Hazard, Poop, Piss, and Vomit Sully the Plaza

    Residents of Justin Herman Plaza​A city health official declared the OccupySF encampment in Justin Herman Plaza an "imminent public health hazard" Tuesday after observing that the site has become a porta potti for protesters, filled with poop, piss, and vomit. Department of Public Health offi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Bedbugs: What San Francisco Can Learn From New York City

    What to do, what to do? ​San Francisco has spent a great deal of time trying to figure how best to resolve the growing bedbug problem -- particularly in SROs. But here is an idea. How about the Public Health Department take a look at how New York City is dealing with bedbugs. NYC's Health and Ment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    E-Cigarettes: How Long Before San Francisco Bans Them?

    e-addictions can be regulated, too ​It wasn't enough to restrict smokers so much so that about the only place they can light up now is in the path of oncoming traffic. San Francisco is now looking at tossing out electronic smokers from their local bar.The FDA ruled today that e-cigarettes are in f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    S.F. Bedbugs: So Many Cases, So Few Inspectors

    cohabitation ​Like Supervisor Jane Kim, we want to know why there are only two health inspectors dedicated to dealing with the city's 560 SROs, home to most of the bedbug cases. To put that into context: that's one inspector for every 10,000 SRO units.But more than that, we want to know why the De ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    A Valentine's Day Fact -- STDs Are on the rise in San Francisco

    Sexy time stats​Leave it to the San Francisco Public Health Department to use Valentine's Day as a way to get people to not want to have sex.Health officials decided to use this hallmark holiday to tell us the hard, cold truth about our Valentines -- they aren't so pure after all. As it turns out, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2010

    What Do MEN Want?

    Sexy time stats​Leave it to the San Francisco Public Health Department to use Valentine's Day as a way to get people to not want to have sex.Health officials decided to use this hallmark holiday to tell us the hard, cold truth about our Valentines -- they aren't so pure after all. As it turns out, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Will Hipsters Drag Down U.S. Health Care System?

    Will Yo Mama Care cover my tatoos?​Except for the hipster provision, extending to 26 the age brakeless track bike-riders get to stay on their parents' health insurance, most of the effects of the federal health-care legislation on its way to final passage won't be seen for several years.So for a v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Chronic City: It's Obvious -- State Medical Association Says Pot Prohibition Is 'Failed Public Health Policy'

    The November CoalitionDrug War protester at Huntington Beach, Calif.​In a laudable nod to the obvious, members of the California Medical Association's (CMA) House of Delegates have endorsed a resolution stating that the criminal prohibition of marijuana is a "failed public health policy."As enacte ... More >>

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    Private Places

    Gay activists push for return of traditional bathhouses

  • News

    May 14, 1997

    Big Deal

    Gay activists push for return of traditional bathhouses

  • News

    February 26, 1997

    Mulch

    Gay activists push for return of traditional bathhouses

  • News

    July 10, 1996

    Give Me Your Healthy

    The immigration crackdown has Latinos fleeing mainstream medicine

  • News

    July 19, 1995

    Hep Help

    The immigration crackdown has Latinos fleeing mainstream medicine

  • News

    July 19, 1995

    Getting Hep

    Hepatitis B is the Rodney Dangerfield of diseases: It just can't get respect. But it sure can kill you.

  • News

    June 28, 1995

    Conscientious Injectors

    The enforcement of drug laws should be less hurtful than the dangers inherent indrug use itself, say the "harm reductionists" at Prevention Point, who practice what they preach by distributing 1.5 million needles to the city's drug users

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