Subject: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Party Foul: Five Million Party Pizzas Recalled Over E. Coli

  November 5, 2007

• Party Foul: Five Million Party Pizzas Recalled Over E. Coli

  November 5, 2007

• Keep Those Nasty Bits Squeaky Clean: USA300 Wants You!

  January 15, 2008

• Get Your Teenage Soccer Slut HPV-Proofed

  January 18, 2008

• Run! Run! "Project eMerge" and it's terrible Mission Statement will destroy us all!

  March 31, 2008

• Clap On! See Where San Francisco Stands in National STD Survey

  When in a city beginning with the letter "M," pack your own condoms -- or elseThe results of the Centers for Disease Control's annual survey on whether we've been naughty or nice are in again -- and there's a whole lotta shaking (and itching, burning, and blistering) going on. Educated folks can argue about whether healthy -- or, rather, unhealthy -- surges in chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are due to increased risky behavior or increased vigilance in testing (Lou Dobbs, we're sure, will bla

  January 19, 2009

• Are Firefighters Being Poisoned By Their Pants (Held Up With Red Suspenders)?

  The joke referenced in the headline is most definitely not funny. But you know what's even less funny? Heavy metal poisoning. Firefighters in Boca Raton have persuaded the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to launch an investigation to determine whether flame-retardant pants are a contributing factor to a peculiar outbreak of heavy-metal poisoning among the ranks. At least 50 Boca Raton firefighters claim they have increased levels of antimony in their bloodstreams. The pants in questio

  January 21, 2009

• Walking Penis Highlights Local Doc's Wildly Effective STD Prevention Soap Opera

  Coming soon to an STD clinic near you! The San Francisco Department of Public Health is proud to announce that Safe in the City -- a dramatic 23-minute STD prevention video developed by an SFDPH official -- has given the Centers for Disease Control a giant boner. This week, the CDC chose Safe in the City for inclusion in its 2008 Compendium of Evidence-based HIV Prevention Interventions, which essentially means that the video has been scientifically proven to t

  February 5, 2009

• Giant, Anthropomorphic Penises All the Rage in San Francisco These Days

  San Francisco Department of Public HealthThe Penismobile is a hybrid? We were sure it'd be a Jaguar XKEYou don't always say this about penises, but in San Francisco, they come in threes. First there was the walking, advice-dispensing dong featured in a locally produced health film/soap opera.Then there was local reality TV ingrate Stephen Fowler. And now, the San Francisco Healthy Penises are back! (and there are three of them!) The Healthy Penises are actually a trio of San Francisco Department

  February 13, 2009

• Conscientious Injectors

  June 28, 1995

• Getting Hep

  July 19, 1995

• The Straight Poop

  September 13, 1995

• Night+Day

  March 6, 1996

• The Living Daylights

  April 24, 1996

• Sloganeering

  For years the city has been using racy ads to sell HIV prevention. Do they work?

  March 1, 2006

• Super-Hyped Infection

  Sensational headlines coupled with fearmongering public health reports have HIV-positive men in San Francisco running scared. It doesn't have to be that way.

  December 14, 2005

• City of Love

  This just in: San Francisco is a singles' paradise!

  December 7, 2005

• The Lifesaver

  Shawn Richard got the city to give jobs to alleged gang leaders. If anyone can make such a program work, it's ...THE LIFESAVER

  February 2, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

  May 12, 2004

• Letters and the Editor

  May 12, 2004

• A Question of Risk

  Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

  January 28, 2004

• Diseaseville

  Asthma, cancer, and other illnesses occur at higher-than-average rates in Hunters Point. Many residents blame the nearby Navy shipyard, one of the most contaminated ex-military bases in the nation.

  August 27, 2003

• Vicious Cycle

  May 7, 2003

• You Make Me Sick

  February 12, 2003

• Burning Mad

  July 31, 2002

• Now That's Amore

  In S.F., spring is the season for romance. And pig coitus. And mouse erections. And ...

  April 3, 2002

• Staying Alive

  An AIDS vaccine should be our government's highest priority. So why is one researcher forced to seek funding from the War on Terrorism?

  March 27, 2002

• The Anthrax Detector No One Wants

  October 24, 2001

• Dog Bites

  What Did You Sing in the War, Daddy?; Anthrax for Dummies

  October 24, 2001

• Saving Togo

  May 16, 2001

• Too Young to Die

  They are the "AIDS babies." Born before doctors learned how to prevent HIV transmission to newborns, hundreds of California kids are growing up under the burden of a deadly disease.

  January 3, 2001

• South to the Future

  FAT OF THE LAND: First in a Four-Part Series

  November 10, 1999

• Sticking Point

  An AIDS vaccine designed by renowned researcher Don Francis is in final testing. The Plague could be over - but the gay and scientific establishments are utterly unenthused.

  July 14, 1999

• Letters

  May 12, 1999

• Lab Rats

  UCSF's Stanley Prusiner is a Nobel laureate and superstar of medical research. But employees don't feel safe working for him.

  May 12, 1999

• Private Places

  Gay activists push for return of traditional bathhouses

  April 28, 1999

• Letters

  April 1, 1998

• Letters

  March 25, 1998

• Viral Combat

  March 11, 1998

• The Illusion of Roe V. Wade

  January 14, 1998

• Night+Day

  May 14, 1997

• Unspun

  March 5, 1997

• Drug Story (Part I)

  November 29, 1995

• Drug Story (Part II)

  Discovered by brain researchers in the early '60s and resurrected by bodybuilders in the late '80s, the semi-illict compound GHB is now marketed on the club and smart-drug circuits as a sexy wonder drug. But beware GHB's knockout punch.

  November 29, 1995

• Swine Flu, Shwine Flu: Curiously Written Missive From Mexican Tourism Board Urges Visitors to Come Anyway

  Public Enemy No. 1...Employing language worthy of a fast-talking abogado, a release fired off Wednesday by the Mexican Tourism Board and Ministry of Tourism and sent to members of the American media by Mexican consulates notes that "No tourists currently in Mexico have been infected by the H1N1 Influenza Virus." That may be, but this is the kind of language game that results in folks inadvertently purchasing 12 cases of scotch when they sign their names to a cell phone contract. Perhaps no touri

  April 30, 2009

• Sex Positive

  July 1, 2009

• SF Gov InAction: Pot Farming Illegal Immigrants Threaten to Bring DJs to City Hall Meetings!

    Monday, Oct. 5   10 a.m. - Public Safety Committee   On the whole, people are in favor of "Public Safety," so most of the time the Public Safety Committee is pretty uncontroversial. The chairman arches his eyebrows and asks the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice "Why aren't you making us safer?" and nobody ever thinks "Hey, that's a really unfair question, you oppressive bastard!" Not today. Today, a full two-thirds of the agenda (okay, two items out of three) are l

  October 5, 2009

• Further Proof That Incarceration Is No Fun: Inmates File Federal Suit Over Alleged Price Gouging In Prison Cantina

  But no one loves pricey coffee​As hard-liners say, "you do the crime, you do the time." But if you feel you're getting ripped off by paying too much for prison coffee -- to quote Doug Llewelyn, "You take 'em to court." Eight inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City in the far north of California last week filed a federal class action suit in San Francisco court alleging price gouging in the jailhouse canteen. The defendants include the current warden, the former warden, the prison'

  October 12, 2009

• S.F clinics limiting STD tests to cut costs

  October 28, 2009

• Got Swine Flu? Call a Doctor. Then Call a Politician.

  ​Those of a certain age may remember the wonderful Chris Guest-Billy Crystal sketches from Saturday Night Live in which Willie and Frankie, a pair of none-too-bright New York City characters who enjoyed nothing more than comparing notes of the twisted, masochistic self-mutilation they needlessly endured: Frankie: Boy. You wanna talk about some pain? I bought one o' them linoleum knives the other day, you know? Willie: With the double edge?Frankie: Right.Willie: Yeah?Frankie: So, I go home, y

  October 28, 2009