Erin Allday

3 weeks ago | sfchronicle.com | Erin Allday

Protein is a hot topic on social media and in more academic circles: who needs it, how much they need and how best to consume it. Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesAcross social media and even in more academic circles, protein is a hot topic at the moment: who needs it, how much they need and how best to consume it.

1 month ago | sfchronicle.com | Erin Allday

Dr. Stephen Hauser, director of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, helped develop a game-changing drug that may help most people with multiple sclerosis live full lives. Stephen Lam/S.F. ChronicleDr. Stephen Hauser was a young resident at Harvard when he met his first patient with multiple sclerosis, a woman with a thriving professional life who’d been completely wiped out by her condition, paralyzed on one side and unable to speak. It was heartbreaking, he recalled.

1 month ago | sfchronicle.com | Erin Allday

Enso Village, a 15-acre senior community with 250 residents — and room for 100 more — is an example of a new era of healthy aging. The campus has two dining halls, a performance space and 2 miles of walking paths. Lectures on topics from artificial intelligence to the risk of falls for seniors are held at least twice a week.

2 months ago | sacbee.com | Erin Allday

Sweeping layoffs in the federal Health and Human Services department, including shuttering the entire San Francisco branch this week, could have catastrophic consequences for HIV/AIDS services and potentially put at risk longstanding efforts to end the epidemic, public health experts say. The job cuts began Tuesday, after the Trump administration announced plans last week to slash 10,000 positions across Health and Human Services; the San Francisco office employed 318 people.

2 months ago | sfchronicle.com | Erin Allday

The housing project for low-income seniors, introduced five years ago, would build 215 apartment units on the Laguna Honda Hospital parking lot.