Healthcare Headlines
This Bay Area university’s researchers helped develop the first successful treatment for HIV in the 1990s, putting San Francisco at the center of the global AIDS response.
What is UCSF (University of California, San Francisco)?
It pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood a day — and you can really “feel” it working.
What is the heart?
The Haight-Ashbury district became ground zero for this 1960s movement that emphasized peace, love, and self-expression.
What is the Summer of Love?
You complain about the fog but call it by name — meet your local weather pal.
What is Karl the Fog?
This iconic Marin trail takes you through redwoods and ends with ocean views — great for mental health and Instagram.
What is Dipsea Trail?
This Oakland-based healthcare system was one of the first in the nation to combine insurance and hospital care under one roof — a model still used today.
What is Kaiser Permanente?
This organ’s main job is detoxing your body — but it’s not in your bathroom.
What is the liver?
San Francisco was one of the first U.S. cities to respond to this health crisis in the 1980s with compassion and community care.
What is the HIV/AIDS epidemic?
You’ve ordered this green breakfast favorite and said it was “worth it” — even though it cost more than lunch.
What is avocado toast?
When it comes to vaccines, health alerts, and community wellness, this professional is the public face of health for each
Counties.
Who is the Public Health Officer?
In 2020, this Bay Area–born biotech company became a household name after developing one of the first COVID-19 vaccines.
What is Pfizer’s partner BioNTech’s rival — Moderna?
Without these paired organs, you’d have trouble filtering waste — and writing “Pee Pee Herman” jokes.
What are the kidneys?
This city’s “Healthy Streets Operation Center” focuses on connecting unhoused residents to care instead of criminalizing them.
What is San Francisco?
You measure distance not in miles, but in “how bad this is today.”
What is traffic on the Bay Bridge?
Forest bathing — or “shinrin-yoku” — originated in this country and is now embraced by Bay Area wellness enthusiasts.
What is Japan?
This Marin County city became one of the first in California to pass a law banning flavored tobacco products to protect youth health.
What is San Rafael?
This pink, spongy organ gives you breath — and maybe some hot air during meetings.
What are the lungs?
This rainbow-colored flag became a global symbol of pride and acceptance — and it was first created in San Francisco in 1978.
What is the Pride Flag?
This Stanford professor and physician won a Nobel Prize for discovering how telomeres affect aging — research that sparked new conversations about longevity.
Who is Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn?
It’s only about 3 pounds, but it runs the show — even when you’re asleep.
What is the brain?
This word describes care that focuses on comfort, compassion, and quality of life at the end of life — a concept pioneered in the Bay Area.
What is hospice care?
You’ve attended a protest, yoga class, or sound bath — sometimes all in one day — in this park named after a U.S. president.
What is Dolores Park?