San Francisco

It took decades, but San Francisco finally installs nets to stop suicides off Golden Gate Bridge

Associated Press

The bridge with sweeping views of the Pacific and San Francisco Bay has long been a destination for people seeking to end their lives, with nearly 2,000 plunging to their deaths since it opened in 1937.

Pedestrians walk along the edge of a sidewalk to avoid tents and sleeping bags, on April 13, 2020, in the tenderloin area of San Francisco.

NPR Health

Newsom sends National Guard and CHP to tackle San Francisco's fentanyl crisis

Juliana Kim

The two agencies will join forces with local police and the district attorney's office to ramp up efforts against fentanyl trafficking in San Francisco.

An In-N-Out Burger sign, pictured in California in June 2010. City health officials briefly shut down the San Francisco location for not following COVID-19 protocols, though it has since reopened for outdoor dining and takeout.

Health News Florida

San Francisco shut down its In-N-Out for not checking patrons' vaccination status

Rachel Treisman

San Francisco's only In-N-Out location still hasn't reopened for indoor dining. The restaurant violated public health requirements by allowing customers to enter without showing proof of vaccination.

Health News Florida

San Francisco To Decide Whether To Ban Flavored Tobacco

The Associated Press

A major tobacco company is pumping millions of dollars into a campaign to persuade San Francisco voters to reject a ban on selling flavored tobacco…

Inside the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in its earliest days. The clinic opened on June 7, 1967, and treated 250 patients that day. It's motto, then and now: "Health care is a right, not a privilege."

Health News Florida

A 1960s 'Hippie Clinic' In San Francisco Inspired A Medical Philosophy

Carrie Feibel

Fifty years ago a community health clinic first opened its doors as a safe, sympathetic space for countercultural youth. Today its motto is the same: "Health care is a right, not a privilege."