Oakland police say both criminal and internal affairs investigators are looking into the injury to Scott Olsen, an Iraq War veteran allegedly hit in the head with a police projectile during last night’s clash between officers and protesters. Olsen is currently listed in critical condition.
A Stanford study says medical schools across the U.S. and Canada aren’t spending enough time teaching about gay and lesbian health care needs.
A new study has found that a banned flame retardant may affect the birth weight of developing fetuses.
Health Dialogues’ Shuka Kalantari looks at the low rates of prenatal care for Native American women in California, and why it is hard to change the numbers.
Disabled and elderly people originally admitted to the U.S. as refugees could lose federal cash assistance today, October 1, 2010. Under a new law, they have to be American citizens in order to receive some benefits.
Meet Dina Burgess, a midwife working in Redding, California – and rural towns surrounding Redding – for over 30 years. Burgess talks about the some of the challenges – and benefits – of rural midwifery.
See photo and hear San Francisco artist Victor Zaballa tell how he received a kidney transplant, and what it means to him.
KQED Public Radio’s Health Dialogues looks at a not-so-obvious workplace hazard: industrial strength chemicals used by janitors to clean supermarkets. Janitors with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) rallied recently in front of Safeway and Lucky supermarkets throughout the greater San Francisco Bay Area, demanding that their employers provide “green” cleaning products.
Undocumented and Afraid: A first-person account from a woman who hesitated to seek health care because of her immigration status. [Note: due to the personal nature of this story, the subject asked that we protect her identity.]
Is your local market up to health department standards? Tag along with Sheldon Lew, a health inspector from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, as he visits markets in San Francisco’s Outer Mission district. Check out the audio slide show of a food safety inspection in S.F.