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In California’s largest cities, one senses that the number of homeless people continues to grow, whatever the interventions to prevent it. But some of the more commonly cited reasons for that growth don’t explain the whole story. The closure of state mental hospitals created a major wave of homelessness throughout America, but that was decades […] With new reports showing that low trace levels of radioactive iodine-131 have been found in the rain as far away as Massachusetts, the Great Potassium Iodide Panic of 2011 continues to simmer along. But what’s wrong with that, you may ask yourself. If people are just buying a pill (or 14) to have on hand, […] Well, sort of. Here is an excerpt from a blog post I wrote at the USC Annenberg School’s Reporting On Health website. I will be blogging over there for a couple of months a couple of times a week. The Great Potassium Iodide Panic of 2011 has peaked and begun to ebb. There were no […] This is one in a series of articles, running the 5 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, and Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, and Hidden in plain […] This is one in a series of articles examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you? In every training program, nationwide, they are the cases you don’t easily forget, the […] This is one in a series of articles examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, and Gunpowder on the streets. Meet Mike* If you work in a homeless clinic, every so often you’re going to see a Mike. He’s easy […] |
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