As Hepatitis B is widely misunderstood and insufficiently screened, Asian Americans are disproportionately affected.

Amid a recall attempt, some Asian American leaders feel they can no longer expect political or financial support from ...

There are hundreds of families on the city’s family shelter waitlist, and nearly 500 people on the adult shelter waitlist. On ...

After running the world’s first doctoral program in radiation biology, James Newell Stannard spent his retirement researching “Radioactivity and Health: A History.” The exhaustive record of the ...

This reporting was supported by a USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism data fellowship. On warm nights Arieann Harrison used to sit and chat with neighbors on the steps outside her apartment ...

Over the last 20 years, Amparo Vigil has felt the hot days get hotter in her Mission District home. “They used to be tolerable, but now it’s unbearable,” said Vigil, who lives in the four-unit ...

After two decades of marriage, Blanca finally hit a breaking point. Watching her husband rip apart the wedding dress she had so painstakingly sewn, then preserved over the years caused something to ...

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The first people known to have been exposed to radiation by the U.S. Navy in San Francisco were part of an atomic cleanup crew. Wrapped in cotton overalls and clunky gas masks, with pockets sewn shut ...

After arranging for her three children to be picked up from elementary school, taking time off from her nursing assistant job and battling nearly three-quarters of an hour of traffic, the 40-year-old ...

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in November, a vibrant crowd gathered on the sand-covered median of the Great Highway. Young families, cyclists and seniors formed a sprawling half-circle along the ...

The success of the atomic bomb program deeply unnerved some of the scientists responsible. Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer’s later qualms are well known. But even before the first ...