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Category Archives: Medicine
Rachael's Breakfast Blend: Cal Study Finds High Teacher Turnover at LA Charter Schools
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Homegrown moviemakers bring film boom to Valley (Fresno Bee) High turnover reported among … Continue reading
Rachael's Breakfast Blend: Bring It, Bloomberg! Everyone Wants What Silicon Valley Has.
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Budget cuts to worsen California court delays, officials say (Los Angeles Times) UC … Continue reading
Rachael's Breakfast Blend: USC Med School Rakes in Dollars; Movie Studios Sit Out Comic Con
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Keck Foundation gives $150 million to USC medical school (Los Angeles Times) Costa … Continue reading
Video: Doctors, Volunteers Shave Their Heads For Children's Cancer Research at Kezar Pub
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Doctors and volunteers shaved their heads to raise money for children’s cancer research Wednesday night at Kezar Pub in San Francisco. Dr. Kate Matthay is chief of the pediatric oncology unit at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Matthay, featured in the … Continue reading
AIDS at 30: Interview - What Were the Earliest Days of the Epidemic Like?
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Part 2 of Scott Shafer's series of interviews surrounding the 30th anniversary of HIV/AIDS is with San Francisco community activist Paul Boneberg, who lived through the epidemic when it first struck in the early 1980s. The interview is summarized directly … Continue reading
AIDS at 30: Interview With Chief of HIV/AIDS at SF General - Treatment Past, Present and Future
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As part of KQED's coverage of the 30th anniversary of the first official report of what later came to be known as HIV, The California Report's Scott Shafer interviewed San Francisco activists and caregivers who experienced the epidemic during its … Continue reading
Read the Original 1981 CDC Report on HIV
Sunday will mark the 30th anniversary of the first official notice of the virus that would soon become known as HIV. In 2006, for the 25th anniversary, The American Journal of Public Health reprinted the original report from Morbidity and … Continue reading
Audio/Video: As AIDS Hits 30, Taking Stock of Where We Are
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In the early 1990s, I moved to the Castro. Until then, ensconced in my heterosexual bubble, as it were, I'd been only vaguely aware of the scourge of AIDS. But this new neighborhood — it felt haunted. Cadaverous men, leaning … Continue reading
Rachael's Breakfast Blend: Wal-Mart of Weed in Arizona; Tuna Farms May Return to San Diego
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. California State Attorney Joan A. Markoff cuts ties with controversial Citizens Compensation Commission … Continue reading
Rachael's Breakfast Blend: Chingo Bling Raps on Masa; Anti-Circumcisers Eye Two City Ballots
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Single parent numbers in Valley increase by 30% (Fresno Bee) Male circumcision opponents … Continue reading
