Looking up and down from their screens, concerned parents and grandparents scribbled notes as they listened to a Zoom presentation by Marjorie Swig, founder of Greenlight Clinic, a mental health facility for teens and young adults. The February event, hosted by Congregation Emanu-El, was billed as “Supporting Your School Age Child and Adolescent Through the…
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Kids & Family
Local ‘magical,’ inclusive parks inspired by one in Israel
Yonaton Naveh is a longtime user of the Magical Bridge Playground in Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park. His mother, Yael, has taken him there regularly since it…
Bay Area
From Los Altos, she tracks vaccination volunteer slots across the country
Max Silver, an 18-year-old at the University of Michigan who chose to sit out this semester at home in Los Altos, had been looking for a volunteer…
Bay Area
Layoffs at SF Jewish senior home, as Covid retreats
The San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, one of the largest skilled nursing facilities in the Bay Area, has laid off 1.5 percent of its workforce —…
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Q&A: This punk rock chiropractor is here to tell you you’re sitting wrong
Before becoming a chiropractor in San Francisco, Ricky Fishman followed a lot of twists and turns in his career. First he was a public school teacher.…
Health
Jewish hospital chaplains are on the pandemic’s spiritual front line
In early February, Dr. Bruce Feldstein, a Jewish chaplain at Stanford Medicine, peered into a glass window as a man on a breathing tube, suffering from a…
Bay Area
Q&A: This Stanford doc hunts down Covid-19 variants in California
Dr. Benjamin Pinsky is a clinician and professor of pathology and infectious diseases at Stanford, and the editor-in-chief of the international Journal of…
Seniors
As we age, a night of good Z’s isn’t as easy as A-B-C
Sleep is essential for life. Every species in the animal kingdom sleeps, though with different patterns. Although adult humans ideally should get eight…
Health
Heavy drinker? Try to put a cork in it – for your health’s sake
I recently treated a middle-aged man who was discharged from the hospital after he had a stroke. He also had hypertension and kidney failure, and I…