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Cancer

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Jack Chin, Bay Area Man with Cancer, Hopes to Find Bone Marrow Match at S.F. Party

                                                                      Jack Chin, 23, was diagnosed with leukemia six months ago, just ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    R.I.P. Warren Hellman, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Founder and Eccentric Banjo Player

    Jay BlakesbergWarren Hellman at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass​ Warren Hellman, the billionaire banjo-picker and eccentric who founded the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival, lost his battle with leukemia on Sunday. He was 77. Hellman was a successful investment banker a beloved philant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    UCSF Medical Center, SF General Fined for Surgical Screw-Ups

    ​UCSF Medical Center and San Francisco General Hospital have both been fined tens of thousands of dollars for operating-room mishaps, the California Department of Public Health announced today.The two are among 14 major hospitals against which state health officials issued sanctions, including top ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 20, 2011

    Rolling Paper: What's Wrong With Smoking?

    ​UCSF Medical Center and San Francisco General Hospital have both been fined tens of thousands of dollars for operating-room mishaps, the California Department of Public Health announced today.The two are among 14 major hospitals against which state health officials issued sanctions, including top ... More >>

  • Music

    February 23, 2011

    Death: Show Preview

    ​UCSF Medical Center and San Francisco General Hospital have both been fined tens of thousands of dollars for operating-room mishaps, the California Department of Public Health announced today.The two are among 14 major hospitals against which state health officials issued sanctions, including top ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Fiona Ma Tweets About 'Wrecked Rectum'

    Do your own Google search for 'Wrecked Rectum'​It wasn't for nothing Assemblywoman Fiona Ma won SF Weekly's "Best Political Tweeter" award. Her 140-character recaps of her journeys around the state -- which invariably involve apropos-of-nothing fecal references -- are mesmerizing. And yet, wheneve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    IACP Announces 2010 Cookbook Award Winners

    ​The International Association of Culinary Professionals is currently having its annual conference in Portland, where the city's best restaurants are being raided by thousands of ravenous, overly discerning food writers. We offer our condolences to the PDX police officers who spent last night brea ... More >>

  • News

    April 21, 2010

    The Many Faces of Dr. Syed

    A phony dermatologist misdiagnosed patients and stuck them with needles. It took four years for the medical board to figure it out.

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Nickel and Dime-Obsessed Chronicle Hooks Human Tragedies to Taxpayer Costs

    Ah, but how much was that chalk?​Mark Shotley, the paraplegic, incontinent, pneumonia-ridden homeless man The San Francisco Chronicle characterized nine years ago as a drag on city health care funds, is dead now. But the macabre, nickel-and-dime-obsessed journalistic tic that led the paper to couc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    Kids These Days More Concerned With Term Papers, Lunch, Than Welts, Diarrhea

    Students at San Jose State University were more preoccupied with homework, lunch and gossip about holiday vacation plans than the possibility they may someday break out in soaking nighttime sweats, suffer weeks-long intense fever, spew endless diarrhea and find unusual lesions on their tongues ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2008

    Titty Titty Bon Bons Support Fight Against Breast Cancer

    Students at San Jose State University were more preoccupied with homework, lunch and gossip about holiday vacation plans than the possibility they may someday break out in soaking nighttime sweats, suffer weeks-long intense fever, spew endless diarrhea and find unusual lesions on their tongues ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 9, 2008

    Want Some Candye?

    Students at San Jose State University were more preoccupied with homework, lunch and gossip about holiday vacation plans than the possibility they may someday break out in soaking nighttime sweats, suffer weeks-long intense fever, spew endless diarrhea and find unusual lesions on their tongues ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 12, 2008

    Laugh It Out

    Students at San Jose State University were more preoccupied with homework, lunch and gossip about holiday vacation plans than the possibility they may someday break out in soaking nighttime sweats, suffer weeks-long intense fever, spew endless diarrhea and find unusual lesions on their tongues ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 20, 2008

    Picture Disks

    Students at San Jose State University were more preoccupied with homework, lunch and gossip about holiday vacation plans than the possibility they may someday break out in soaking nighttime sweats, suffer weeks-long intense fever, spew endless diarrhea and find unusual lesions on their tongues ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2008

    R.I.P 'Mayor of Geary Street'

    Students at San Jose State University were more preoccupied with homework, lunch and gossip about holiday vacation plans than the possibility they may someday break out in soaking nighttime sweats, suffer weeks-long intense fever, spew endless diarrhea and find unusual lesions on their tongues ... More >>

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Termed-out Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval running for judge?

    Students at San Jose State University were more preoccupied with homework, lunch and gossip about holiday vacation plans than the possibility they may someday break out in soaking nighttime sweats, suffer weeks-long intense fever, spew endless diarrhea and find unusual lesions on their tongues ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2007

    Memorial Tonight at 6 p.m. for Jim Rivaldo

    Students at San Jose State University were more preoccupied with homework, lunch and gossip about holiday vacation plans than the possibility they may someday break out in soaking nighttime sweats, suffer weeks-long intense fever, spew endless diarrhea and find unusual lesions on their tongues ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 20, 2005

    Lipstick Thespians

    This year's DIVAfest isn't all about lip gloss and halter tops

  • News

    May 5, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, May 5, 2004

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Best Children's Hospital

    UCSF Children's Hospital

  • News

    October 31, 2001

    Cell Therapy

    Bay Area researchers are using a particular cancer to produce neuronlike cells that, when injected into the brain, seem to reverse the effects of stroke. Is the treatment a historic medical breakthrough, or a reckless ploy to attract investors?

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best Urban Beach

    Dolores Park

  • News

    May 16, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    Your Sorry Ash; Sour Charity

  • Calendar

    February 7, 2001
  • News

    September 6, 2000

    A Killer Dies, a Mystery Lingers

    Hashem Zayed's death in prison leaves his motive for a bizarre murder unresolved

  • Dining

    October 27, 1999

    Side Dish

    Special Sauce, Dear Michael, Leviathan, Sold Upstream, A League of Their Own, and Royal Flush

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