Healthcare

SF Pride ED Suzanne Ford reacts to horrible anti-trans youth Supreme Court ruling

'The worst affront to the equal protection clause since Plessy v. Ferugson,' says longtime trans activist, urging unity.

LGBTQ Marke B. - June 18, 2025

The media’s dangerous ‘sanewashing’ of RFK Jr.

He's not a vaccine 'skeptic,' he's a cynic—and mainstream publications are playing a losing game with our health.

Culture Bruce Mirken - June 5, 2025

Notes from the road to (health) hell

In Trumpworld, the unthinkable is now standard operating procedure.

Healthcare Bruce Mirken - May 6, 2025

When fundamentalist religious thought replaces science, we are in serious trouble

Under RFK Jr, researchers are looking for data that supports their political agenda, not data that seeks the truth.

Healthcare Bruce Mirken - March 30, 2025

Healthcare

Oh Canada! Newsom could tell Trump that the 51st state has free health care

Joel Schechter - March 24, 2025

The governor wants to reach out to the right wing. How about offering to import Canada's health-care system?

News + Politics

Trump’s attacks on trans people and public health escalate into a war on reality itself

Bruce Mirken - February 9, 2025

Administration moves to purge scientific facts, stifle essential research, and erase entire populations.

Healthcare

Medical and public health communities rally to oppose ‘bizarre, unfit’ Trump nominees

Bruce Mirken - January 14, 2025

Thousands of professionals speak out against the parade of conspiracy-driving 'skeptics' up for crucial roles.

Healthcare

The Luigi problem

Tim Redmond - December 10, 2024

An alleged murderer has become a folk hero, on all sides of the political spectrum. The Democratic Party remains utterly clueless.

COVID

Long Covid: The search for answers inches forward

Bruce Mirken - December 6, 2024

Is the tide finally turning on research into the chronic illness—and funding at the federal level for prevention and a cure?

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Opinion

Opinion: Is it time for an ACT-UP for Long COVID?

Bruce Mirken - October 9, 2024

As the dangers of Long COVID become more recognized, the country's going backwards on preventing new infections.

Healthcare

UCSF moves to fire staffer who challenged school’s stance on Palestine

Griffin Jones - September 2, 2024

Therapist defended renowned doctor who questioned the health impacts of Zionism; now she's facing dismissal.

Healthcare

UCSF says it will ‘retain and grow’ services at two local hospitals …

Cydney Hayes - March 18, 2024

... But nurses who work at St. Mary's and St. Francis are not convinced.

Healthcare

Singing the insanity of the US healthcare system

Bruce Mirken - October 17, 2023

Big Pharma spends a fortune on ads— but hardly anyone can figure out how much the medications really cost (and fewer can afford them).

Opinion

I just caught COVID—right before essential safety measures expire

Charles Lewis III - May 9, 2023

As someone uninsured, I was lucky to get free vax, tests, and Paxlovid. We may be all on our own after May 11

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COVID

Now the anti-vaxxers are resurrecting AIDS denialist lunacy

Bruce Mirken - May 3, 2023

Far-right Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fans might want to be careful about clinging to nonsense that got its adherents killed.

Healthcare

Long COVID has reached the ‘Russian Roulette’ stage in the US

Bruce Mirken - March 28, 2023

As the nation seeks to return to a maskless, congregate 'normal,' the brutal virus is still out there, and repeated infections seem linked to longterm health problems.

News + Politics

Health Commission faces the ongoing crisis at Laguna Honda Hospital

Tim Redmond - January 16, 2023

And meanwhile, hundreds of unhoused seniors have serious medical issues that are getting entirely ignored.

Protest

ACT UP fought back, and the world is better for it

Marke B. - June 25, 2015

Hundreds of AIDS survivors gathered last weekend to look back on 25 years of protest and change.

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Healthcare

SF Pride ED Suzanne Ford reacts to horrible anti-trans youth Supreme Court ruling

The media’s dangerous ‘sanewashing’ of RFK Jr.

Notes from the road to (health) hell

When fundamentalist religious thought replaces science, we are in serious trouble

Oh Canada! Newsom could tell Trump that the 51st state has free health care

Trump’s attacks on trans people and public health escalate into a war on reality itself

Medical and public health communities rally to oppose ‘bizarre, unfit’ Trump nominees

The Luigi problem

Long Covid: The search for answers inches forward

Opinion: Is it time for an ACT-UP for Long COVID?

UCSF moves to fire staffer who challenged school’s stance on Palestine

UCSF says it will ‘retain and grow’ services at two local hospitals …

Singing the insanity of the US healthcare system

I just caught COVID—right before essential safety measures expire

Now the anti-vaxxers are resurrecting AIDS denialist lunacy

Long COVID has reached the ‘Russian Roulette’ stage in the US

Health Commission faces the ongoing crisis at Laguna Honda Hospital

ACT UP fought back, and the world is better for it

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