San Francisco receives $33.7M grant for youth psychiatric facilities
San Francisco has been awarded a $33.7 million grant to build new psychiatric facilities for young people, according to a statement from Mayor London Breed.
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San Francisco has been awarded a $33.7 million grant to build new psychiatric facilities for young people, according to a statement from Mayor London Breed.
As the number of opioid deaths continue to rise, a Bay Area lawmaker has introduced a proposal requiring public places carry naloxone to reverse overdoses.
State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has re-introduced legislation that would legalize psychedelic drugs, one year after a similar proposal stalled in the legislature.
Consumer Reports says potentially harmful levels of cadmium and lead were detected in some chocolate brands.
California's public health officer says the strongest increase of COVID-19 is happening here in the Bay Area.
Across the Bay Area, some individual businesses, institutions, organizations and municipalities bringing back masking requirements in certain settings.
California will stop making companies pay employees who can't work because they caught the coronavirus while on the job.
Health officials in all 11 counties in the greater Bay Area urged the region's residents Thursday to protect themselves from COVID-19, flu and other respiratory viruses during the winter holidays.
COVID-19's spike protein may contribute to blood vessels secreting fluids into a person's body, which can lead to severe health outcomes like respiratory failure, according to a study from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Every household will be able to order a total of four at-home COVID tests.
Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan is leading an effort to restore the requirement to wear a facial covering inside city facilities, which would provide equitable access to all and protect the public's health, Kaplan's office said Tuesday.
Appointments for Santa Clara County children under age 5 to receive the bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine are now open at county-run vaccination clinics, public health officials said Wednesday.
Registered nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center campuses in Berkeley and Oakland gave notice Tuesday that they plan to strike starting on Christmas Eve.
A week after San Francisco's only safe injection site was shut down, city leaders and community activists called out Mayor London Breed and the Department of Health for not offering any alternatives, at a time when hundreds of drug-addicted people are dying.
The operators of the Tesoro refinery in Martinez has been fined nearly $1.5 million by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District in connection with air quality violations.
