Anti-abortion activists outside Planned Parenthood’s Valencia Street clinic vowed to fight on Thursday despite initial approval this week by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors of an expanded 25-foot buffer zone around reproductive healthcare facilities...
San Francisco could become the first city in the country to limit the number of tobacco retail permits by district if a local youth development group finds a champion at City Hall. Over the past...
Have you had your home inspected for lead recently? If you’re anything like most San Franciscans, the answer is probably no. But consider this: 94 percent of the city’s houses were built before 1978, when...
The killing of a beloved cook in October was the latest in what the Mexican consulate general in San Francisco says are targeted attacks against the city’s Mayan community. “This is something that we are...
Although San Francisco General Hospital’s new Pediatric Eye Center opened only four months ago, the effect the new kid-friendly environment is having on patients is clear. “The people who work here are happier because the...
As the preliminary hearing of Carlos Guzmangarza on charges of practicing medicine without a license and a host of other crimes continued this week, prosecutors called Douglas Becker, an investigator for the Medical Board of...
One day two years ago, Consuelo Barrego’s nose wouldn’t stop bleeding. So she went where she had never been before: to San Francisco General Hospital. She left the hospital with a $3,600 bill and no...
When I was a kid, my family just scraping by, food stamps helped stock our meager kitchen in Chicago. Starting out as a journalist, I lived on $10 a week in New York and used...
