By Andy WrightBy now, everyone has probably heard of the Yelp review heard 'round the world. Christopher Norberg took issue with the billing practices of one Steven Biegel, a chiropractor at the Advanced Chiropractic Center on Valencia Street. Like many disgruntled consumers, Norberg expressed his dissatisfaction on Yelp. Biegel retaliated with a lawsuit.What happens when you sue someone for writing a negative review on a review site? Users of the site start reviewing your lawsuit. Oh, dear.A vi
A controversial San Francisco study is spending taxpayers' money to see if Christian clergy, Indian medicine men, and Tibetan lamas can heal patients with AIDS and brain tumors
San Francisco Department of Public HealthLead is bad for people, and it's particularly bad for children, older folks, and anyone with kidney problems. So when a 60-year-old South Asian man walked into Dr.Vivek Bhalla's office with diabetes and kidney disease, and his lead levels tested three times higher than what's acceptable, that was a big problem.
It became crucial to find out how the lead poisoning was getting into the man's body, and Dr. Bhalla, at the time
The commute to San Francisco is even worse than Fairfield's Those of you who still read news -- God bless you -- here in San Francisco may be aware that the venerable New York Times has beefed up its local coverage with a Bay Area section. The Grey Lady has also inaugurated a local blog; since our job is to scour and report on local news, we'd be fools not to read it. Well, there has been some good reading to be had. I was particularly fond of a blog entry in which scholars parsed the legalit
